Thursday, August 27, 2015
Google Partners with Rockefeller Foundation to Streamline Nairobi Public Transport
The launch of Google Transit update to Google Maps makes Nairobi the third African city with the service after Lagos and Johannesburg, said country programs manager Evans Arabu.
Speaking at the event on Wednesday, Arabu noted that this is despite Kenya's semi-formal transport sector.
"Nairobi joins more that 2,800 other cities and towns across the globe with the service. The city as yet has no traffic information and the time schedules are tentative," he said.
The upgrade that has taken three years to develop was done in collaboration with Google, Digital Matatus and the Rockefeller Foundation....