iWayAfrica- Kenya has contributed immensely to the success of safety in this year's KCB Rally through its VSat technology which provided satellite broadband to tracking and monitoring of Rally cars.
According to Ken Munyi, Head of Business iWayAfrica-Kenya, driving safety through ICT was achieved because of the strength of the VSat technology that defies the barriers of terrain given the hilliness of Nyeri County.
Munyi said the satellite broadband they provided assisted Cartrack and ASL-Choppers during the Rally to trace cars in the track in case of an emergency:
"Our satellite broadband is not only efficient but effective and reliable. In case of an emergency, CarTrack through monitoring system identifies the co-ordinates and supplies them to the ASL Choppers who then finds it easy to trace the car that is in the emergency situation. Unlike the fibre optics, Satellite broadband is still the most reliable and efficient broadband technology you can rely on in all terrains."

Having sponsored the KCB Rally National Champions for the past seven years now, Ken reiterated the significance of driving safety using IT technologies during Rallies especially with the use of reliable connectivity such as the satellite technology:

"We've done this for the past seven years of sponsoring the Rally and the results of using our connectivity to achieve safety have been effective for the Rally organizers. And since safety is an important component during the Rally we are still committed to providing our reliable and effective satellite broadband, "said Munyi.

Sharing the company's vision of bridging the digital divide, Munyi indicated that sports was equally not unexceptional in embracing ICT to achieve organizational success, monitoring and evaluation.

At the same time, the journalists covering the event were able to relay the information back to their newsrooms' real-time by using the same connectivity and monitoring the cars from the CarTrack website to get provisional results:

"The media centre at the Rally was also powered using our satellite connectivity which proved reliable for relaying news back to the newsrooms for the journalists."