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Kenyan students’ app emerges second in global innovation contest

Nairobi, Kenya: A mobile application developed by Precious Blood, Riruta students was named first runners-up in a global contest that recognises schoolgirls’ technological innovations.

The M-Safiri app- designed to ease the process of booking and paying for public transport- emerged second in the Technovation Challenge 2016 held in San Francisco, California in the US. The Precious Blood students, who go by the name ‘Team Sniper’, developed it through App Challenge, an initiative of Safaricom Women In Technology (WIT) dedicated to inspiring women in technology and entrepreneurship and targets girls in high schools for a 12 week coaching period.

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