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Sunday News Reporter
Technites Africa has launched a revolutionary digital platform which offers one of the widest range of on-demand services and instantly connects customers to independent service providers for the delivery of quality domestic and enterprise solutions in the formal and informal sectors.
The Chief Operations Officer of Technites Africa, Mr Rahul Patel, said the platform includes modules for “business to consumer” services, “business to business”, “business to government”, a skills training academy, as well as Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality solutions, creating the foundations for Africa’s biggest digital market place.
“The biggest challenge Africa faces is extremely high unemployment among its youth and most skilled professionals who have found themselves struggling to find any work in the formal and informal sectors of their nations. This platform provides an opportunity for every skilled professional in Africa to be recognised and to be brought back into the job market without applying to an employer. Once registered on the platform, the jobs comes to you, instead of you looking for the job” said Mr Patel.
The launch in Zimbabwe focuses on the business to consumer platform which connects customers to service providers covering over 50 different domestic and commercial services. These range from domestic repairs/ services (plumbing, appliance and electrical repairs, landscaping), beauty services, satellite, IT domestic and commercial installations (satellite, mechanical, IT, electronics), all the way to events management, beauty services, home care, and construction.
“A technite is any skilled professional with auditable qualifications who offers any of the services that are on the platform. So to us a maid is a technite, just like a plumber is a technite. A tutor is a technite, just like a motor mechanic is a technite” said Dorothy Zimuto, CEO of Technites Zimbabwe.
“Technites is a future-proof way of creating employment which recognises the skills that and individual or SME has while digitally pooling all the jobs that exist in a market. That is what is revolutionary about technites.”
To access the digital market place, the platform integrates two applications, a Customer Application and a Service Provider Application. The two applications speak to each other to provide an Uber-like experience, complete with GPS maps to indicate the location of the customer and service provider simultaneously.
Meanwhile, Mr Patel said technites has already started rolling out services in over nine African countries including, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Botswana, and Zambia.
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter