How Safaricom Is Pioneering Kenya’s Future With Cutting-edge Technology
How Safaricom Is Pioneering Kenya’s Future With Cutting-edge Technology
Safaricom continues to collaborate with top local and global organizations to highlight Kenya as a leading hub for trade and commerce in Africa.
Safaricom’s impact on Kenyans goes far beyond what a teenager could bring to a family.
Yet, at just 25, it stands tall among seasoned corporate giants, redefining investor conversations.
One of the key impacts of Safaricom’s success is the M-PESA Foundation Academy which caters for over 1,000 economically disadvantaged but bright girls and boys.
This has produced a healthy and an educated society that will aid in producing future leaders of the country.
How Safaricom Is Pioneering Kenya’s Future With Cutting-edge Technology
The academy offers the young scholars an opportunity to learn in a tech-oriented environment and their lives shaped in different spheres of life from entrepreneurship, to academics, thought-leadership, music and the arts.
The academy offers the young scholars an opportunity to learn in a tech-oriented environment and their lives shaped in different spheres of life from entrepreneurship, to academics, thought-leadership, music and the arts.
As part of building Kenya’s future cash-lite economy is the hugely popular Lipa Na M-PESA, which powers mobile payments from small businesses.
In recognition of the importance of SMEs in the economy, Safaricom has embarked on a journey to digitise small and medium enterprises through Lipa na M-PESA.
How Safaricom Is Pioneering Kenya’s Future With Cutting-edge Technology
Safaricom has digitised millions of small enterprises in Kenya, enabling the owners to track their payment records.
Technology is one area where women are slightly under-indexed in terms of actually doing the technical job.
To power a future where women also play a central role in building the country, Safaricom has initiated Women in Technology programme to provide a platform where women can share a wider range of support initiatives and resources to advance their careers to the next level.
Safaricon PLC CEO, Dr. Peter Ndegwa highlights on the significance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, ranging from women, minorities, and underrepresented voices, the impact this has had on the success of Safaricom and its ability to resonate with an increasingly diverse customer base.
Safaricom’s Women In Technology initiative has contributed to more female engineers joining Safaricom, lifting the ratio of female to male engineers in the company from 9% in 2013 to 20% today.
Safaricom firmly believes that its technology is only good if it can play a role in lifting the society in which it serves.
