livestock live talks
new series of ILRI-hosted monthly seminars
About the speaker
Livestock and mobile technology
A talk by Su Kahumbu, agriculturalist and social entrepreneur who
created icow, a mobile app that:
• Prompts farmers on vital days of cow gestation period
• Helps farmers find the nearest vet and all service providers
• Collects and stores farmer milk and breeding records
• Sends farmers best dairy practices
Venue: John Vercoe Auditorium, ILRI Nairobi Su Kahumbu Stephanou is a social
entrepreneur, founder of Green Dreams ltd
Date: Tuesday 11 December 2012 and Green Dreams Tech ltd companies
Time: 1500 to 1600 hours focused on creating solutions for small
scale organic farmers in Africa. She has
extensive experience across the organic
The 20-minute talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. value chains from production consumption,
policy and advocacy. She is the creator of
the Apps4Africa Award winning app icow, a
mobile application developed to help small
scale dairy farmers track their cow’s fertility
cycle. Su is a TED Fellow and is spreading
her passion through the TED network; she
plans to, “Build a better Africa from the
ground up”.