How many times have you had to give directions to a lost rider and after so much back and forth they show up half an hour late? This causes so much frustration and inconvenience. It is even worse if you had ordered food and it comes an hour late, when your hunger pangs have gotten the better of you. Well, this problem could soon be a thing of the past thanks to OkHi, a technology start up that seeks to ensure that Kenyans have physical addresses to ease the delivery of goods and services.
Timbo Drayson founder and CEO at OkHi, gives an example of a Red cross Ambulance that could not find the house from which they had received an emergency call. When they finally got there it was too late for to save the person. In as much as okHi seek to achieve excellence in terms of delivery of goods, they also hope to improve people’s lives by avoiding such situations. Drayson goes ahead to add that having a physical address enables the banks and other institutions, with your permission verify who you are. Previously, in such instances, one was required to provide a P.O Box to receive mail and prove their identity and that has proved to be difficult. OkHi will help people who never had access to financial services to finally do so.
Here is how they are doing it; your okHi address is a web link that points to a GPS tag and photo of your gate. The GPS tag helps someone get close and the photo will let one know that they are exactly at the right place. This will also help us as individuals as we no longer have to make numerous calls seeking directions to as specific place.
Juniper’s Kitchen uses OkHi (http://okhi.co/tyf4) and this helps its clients to find them without bothering their staff members with phone calls asking for directions. Timbo finally says that they hope to reach Kenya and the rest of the four billion people globally who do not have a physical addresses. Currently, they have over a hundred thousand people who live in the neighbourhoods they have mapped out including Ngong Road to Lavington and Kilimani to Westlands. Click here to find out more about them.