Innovations/: Volume 2: Find out 11 Tech innovations which would transform the face of Kenya as of 2013
Always, regarding our series about potential innovations, the creations, Tech development across Africa, we focus now on:
EcoFuels Kenya: processing biofuels and organic
fertilizer from a commonly-found indigenous tree with no other demonstrable
commercial value in Kenya. Their pilot has yielded $2k revenue.
Access Afya operates primary care mini-health
clinics in slums in Nairobi; their primary revenue stream is pay-per-service
consultations, diagnostics, and screenings through their “eHealth” mobile
platform. They are opening their first clinic in October 2012
Lipisha enables businesses to accept mobile
payments from customers’ MPesa accounts, even if the customer does not own a
mobile phone.
SASA Africa has developed a mobile application
that connects vendors and consumers of artisan products with wholesale
purchasers.
Evesmama seeks to be a branded midwifery franchise to
offer affordable prenatal care and childbirth support to low-income Kenyan
women. Their pilot has done $5K in revenue.
UHiredMe has developed a website and mobile
platform that enables day laborers to enter formal, mobile-payment enforced
contract agreements with workers.
Kola Studios has developed an Android-based
educational games for use in schools.
I-Procure provides a mobile-based platform
that enables SMEs and small business owners to register and verify themselves,
qualifying for lucrative procurement contracts.
Takamoto BioGas provides biogas installations and
appliances for smallholder farmers, with $15,000 in revenue to date.
Stawi Foods: an award-winning banana processing
company that procures bananas from farmers and processes them into banana flour
for the local and export market. 90% of Stawi’s suppliers are women living
below the poverty line; Stawi’s pilot has yielded $5K in revenue.
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