Tag: Kenya
Philips anchors anti-counterfeit campaign on SMS, online tools
Royal Philips today launched its “Buy Original” campaign; an informative anti-counterfeit initiative that will make use of short text messages and online tools such as websites and social media to highlight the existence of counterfeit products in Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa. Themultiyear outreach isaimed at protecting consumers, creating awareness about counterfeit products in the market and educating consumers in identifying an original genuine product versus a counterfeit one. To establish the authenticity of a product the consumer (in Kenya) has to send the 16-digit serial number of the lighting product via sms to 20222 and they will receive immediate feedback on whether the product they are planning to buy or have bought is genuine or fake. This is a pilot and if proven successful, Philips will explore rolling this out to the consumer lifestyle category of products too. […]
Kenyan startup Echo Mobile partners with IBM, Airtel to fight Ebola
IBM Research Africa, Airtel and Kenya’s Echo Mobile have launched a citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities affected by Ebola to communicate their issues and […]
Kenya’s Nyeri county to host first civic Hack
Nyeri County will hold its first Hackathon on 31st October to November 2nd 2014, an event that will among other things seek to get someone to build a Creative Software […]
New National digital registry to help bridge information gap in Kenya’s financial sector
Kenya is set to launch a National Digital Registry Service that is expected to bridge the yawning information gap in the financial sector while addressing the issues of insecurity, corruption […]