Could technology have improved the lives of the Luo Tribe in the book Yes We Can? If so, how?

I'm really not sure if technology could help the lives of the the luo tribe because maybe they didn't care for technology or don't know about technology.A lot of things was going on in the book and a lot of things wasn't meation about technology.But I do know Barack Obama mom Stanley Ann died of a diease called ovarian I also know that his dad died and was from kenya.