STORY: Experts meet in Kenya to enhance cooperation in border management in Africa
SHOOTING TIME: April 2, 2024
DATELINE: April 5, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:02
LOCATION: Nairobi
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of participants at the conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English): KITHURE KINDIKI, Cabinet secretary in Kenya's Ministry of Interior and National Administration
3. various of participants at the conference

STORYLINE:

The National Border Management Conference concluded on Thursday in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

The three-day event was held under the theme of "building on coordination and moving towards integration."

It brought together more than 300 participants, including senior border control officials from across Africa, to discuss ways to enhance cooperation in border management in the continent.

SOUNDBITE (English): KITHURE KINDIKI, Cabinet secretary in Kenya's Ministry of Interior and National Administration
"The use of technology, in particular, digital technology is going to become crucial for future border control and management. Future border control and management is going to be driven by data. That is why big data is irrefutably one of the key drivers of the fourth industrial revolution. And therefore, this space data is going to be crucial. If you have the data, you are able to secure your territory. If you don't have the data, it doesn't matter. The hardware and human resources that you deploy are going to be crucial to secure our countries and our world. I also foresee the increasing use of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other emerging technologies where border control and management is going to be shared between human interactions and use of machines."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Nairobi.
(XHTV)