SoftAfya Company

ICT & Innovation

Self-centered.” “Short-sighted.” “Can’t concentrate.” These words and more have been mostly used to describe today’s generation, which baby boomers decided to name it as “the Selfie Generation.” It’s true that most of the people in this generation have grown up with cellphones and social networks which led to the development of certain habits:

They get news online instead of from the paper and spread it so fast that a movement can even be organized overnight. Rather than be dependent on musty tomes and preaching professors, they find things out for themselves with tools like Google. They take in more information per minute than any previous generation, about friends, family, society, pop culture, and the world, and they process it, shape it, and use it like never before.

SoftAfya Ltd Company under its founder and CEO Mark Nyamwocha is a perfect example of what this generation can do. They developed a management tool that is used in hospitals to simplify the administration and service delivery. Through this system they help small health centers to track their expenditure, manage their staff, resources, and revenue. One of the successes they have attained is the growth of all the centers which started using their system because of the proper resource management aided by this digital tool. This growth meant better service delivery. Up to now they service 11 health centers in Iringa Region.

Through this tool it’s possible to monitor data of the most frequent diseases and their hotspots to design most appropriate solutions.

Its these kind of youth initiatives that we define as Smart Solutions, that can be provided by the ideal generation, the “Smart Generation”. SoftAfya is one of the Smart Generation Members, and through it we champion more innovative youth led solutions that will cater for every sector in the society.