Not just numbers: Quantifying development as metrology hits 150-year milestone

About this episode

The episode discusses the significance of metrology in development, highlighting Kenya's role in global measurement standards.

If you can measure it, you can manage it. One of Kenya's metrology heavyweights speaks to Georja Calvin-Smith about how there is might in monitoring. There were no African signatories when 17 countries came together 150 years ago to set measurement standards for time, distance and weight, but as the continent's development has picked up pace, so has its contribution to global metrology.

People in this episode

Host: Georja Calvin-Smith

Topics covered

• metrology
• development
• measurement standards
• Africa
• global contribution
• Kenya

Keywords

• metrology
• development
• measurement
• Kenya
• global standards
• time
• distance
• weight

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kenya

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