Sokowatch, the innovative East African e-commerce platform, has emerged winner of the recently concluded Visa Everywhere Initiative – Pandemic Challenge in the USA. This year’s initiative was specifically developed to find an immediate solution to help rebuild small businesses heavily impacted by COVID-19. Sokowatch, which uses tech-enabled solutions to improve supply chain inefficiencies and transform access to essential goods, currently has a network of over 16,000 shops in nine major cities across East Africa. With the informal retail market making up 90% of African consumer purchases, the threat of shop closures due to the global pandemic could have potentially limited…
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