African tech start-ups split $30,000 prize for transport ideas

Winners, from left: Markus Thill, president Bosch region Africa; Ambima Munza, and Jehiel Oliver, Hello Tractor; Bernd Heinrichs, executive vice-president and chief digital officer of Bosch Mobility Solutions; Wyclife Omandi and Sonia Kabra, BuuPass and Yves Nono, vice-president of, Bosch Mobility Solutions, sales region Africa. Picture: SUPPLIED

Yves Nono, vice-president of Bosch Mobility Solutions, sales region Africa commented: “Africa currently faces significant issues around the topic of mobility; with a growing population, these issues will only be exacerbated. Now is the time we need to find smart mobility solutions for the future Africa.”

The idea aims to empower that country’s citizens, and hopefully the rest of the continent, with an app that calculates the shortest distances and cheapest fares while also introducing a single, safer card payment method regardless of mode of transport chosen. • Mobility, from Senegal, is a web platform that citizens use to find the closest, cheapest maintenance and service repair centres in that country;

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