Corporate News
By SANDRA CHAO-BLASTO
In Summary
- Zindua Café is an interactive portal designed to allow innovators to share their ideas, applications and prototypes with Safaricom.
- The portal, accessible on the Safaricom's website is expected to help minimise suspicion that the telco is not honest in handling the submissions.
Zindua Café, accessible on the telecommunication company’s
website, is an interactive portal designed to allow innovators and
developers to share their ideas, applications and prototypes with
Safaricom.
Director of strategy and innovation Joe Oguttu said
the portal would structure the way through which the company receives
applications and also provide transparency to the process through which
developers can track progress of their submissions.
“We acknowledge that simple solutions make a huge
difference not just to the economy but also to the lives of the
developers and we want to encourage more of that with the portal,” said
Mr Oguttu.
It is expected to help minimise suspicion that
Safaricom, which receives more than 700 ideas and prototypes of
innovations every year, is not honest in handling the submissions.
“Before applications would be sent to individual
members of the innovation department or through the standard email and
would have to go through the process of internal vetting to find out if
it has been accepted or dropped, by submitting ideas with Zindua Café
there is a trail and they cannot come out and say Safaricom stole their
idea,” he said.
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