Safaricom has awarded six early stage mobile technology start-ups with an aggregated cash prize of KES 3.7 million (USD 43,000) through the Safaricom AppWiz Developers' Challenge. It attracted 1,569 applications and 274 mobile-based ideas, 48 of which were shortlisted to attend a hackathon session from which the top 18 teams were selected to participate in a three month incubation process. 'Tichaa', an app that allows children to learn Swahili was awarded KES 1.7 million (USD 20,000) and won the education category and emerging top overall. Second was M-Ledger, an application that enables customers to manage their M-PESA transactions. Bud Doctor won the health category, the Maasai Moran App, which addresses the challenges faced by the Maasai boy, My Taxi App which won in the games category and Sokonect, an agricultural app.
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