AITEC, Ghanaian investor partner to bring product swapping site to Kenya

Eric Osiakwan, a GhanaianTech Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, is set to partner with AITEC Africa, an ICT exhibition and conference organizer, to launch a Kenyan goods swapping site dubbed Mali 4 Mali.

This announcement was made during the Aitec summit by Osiakwan, during the AITEC East Africa ICT summit 2016, while answering a question posed by an audience member about how to localize business ideas. He said that designing innovations for countries outside of your own is a hard task, due to the lack of familiarity with the foreign market.

“We launched Swappaholics in Ghana where it was well received. It in turn trickled down to Dubai where it was well received as well because people in Dubai like to swap as well, so we have decided to partner with AITEC to launch the portal in Kenya because it is a big economy.” Osiakwan added.

Swappaholics is an interactive portal that empowers individuals and businesses to exchange products, skills (SkillSwap) or services in a mutually beneficial social setting. Swappaholics encourages cashless trading and enables everyone to trade irrespective of their financial status.

AITEC’s annual ICT summit is being held from the 24th–25th February 2016 at Oshwal Centre under the theme inspire and innovate. The conference was opened by Dr. Katherine Getao, EBS, ICT Secretary, Ministry of ICT, the opening remarks were closely followed by an ICT Visionary panel discussion consisting of the ICT Secretary Dr. Katherine Getao, ICT Authority Acting CEO Robert Mugo, COO of Technobrain Anand Mohan, Group CEO-­‐Kenya Commercial Bank Joshua Oigara and Eric Osiakwan, Managing Partner, Chanzo Capital, Ghana.

The conference will include ICT professionals and managers from Silensec, Payspace, Jubilee Insurance, Empire micro-­‐systems, Infonet among others who will be presenting during the two day conference involving different forums.

Some of the highlights of the Summit include: Launch   of   a   new   Anti-­‐Corruption App competition, a Career Fair where top HR professionals will be scouting for talent and presentation of a revolutionary IT based supply chain financing model by Telemedia.