вЂњWe are looking to engage more and more emergency providers as partners as well as getting the app out there to users. The app continues to send emergency updates to the available contacts every five minutes until the situation is resolved.Д¬urrently, the app hasВ 3,000 users andВ was recentlyВ shortlisted to represent Kenya in the Africa Prize for Engineering, where only 16 African entrepreneurs are selected by the Royal Academy for Engineering based on the potential of their project.

The three contacts are the first peopleВ to be notified, in addition to any relevant emergency service providers. To sign up, the user is required to provide three contacts of their next of kin, including their spouse, a work colleague, and a parent. This, Ingunja says, helps to broaden the effectiveness and efficiency of the app. It then sends an emergency alert to the police or other emergency responders вЂ“ as well as any other Usalama users within 200 meters from your location. Usalama, which was launched in November 2016, is a smartphone app that is activated by simply shaking your phone three times while holding down the volume button, or tapping on the appвЂ™s icon. I would have needed emergency response urgently and would probably have not gotten it as quickly before I bled out,вЂќ InganjiВ explained. вЂњI always kept thinking, what if they had shot me and there was no one to help me.

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