A kid exploring the app with a man believed to be his father
A new mobile application called SmartSapp has been designed for parents and school authorities to ensure children’s safety.
Designed by MineX 360 Group Services, the application identifies who drops off children at school and who picks them up and at the exact time.
It was launched on Thursday at the Holiday Inn Hotel to, among other objectives, help prevent recent cases of kidnapping of school kids in the country.
According to Frank Natie, Managing Director of Minex, the app is the most convenient and safest way of securing children’s security.
It would also take over from the manual system where parents spend a lot of time in queues to authenticate their identity of their children before picking their children from school.
Schools that register for this app get to access the profiles of designated guardians of pupils, including their photographs.
SmartSapp is also connected to banks and Mobile Money services to enable parents to pay various forms of fees outlined by a school.
Frank Natie told NEWS-ONE on Thursday that parents can only be on the app if their children’s school is also on the app. He, therefore, appealed to schools to join the app, revealing that a pilot project “was carried out and a number of schools have already subscribed to the SmartSapp.”
He also indicated his company’s willingness to extend the app’s use to the general public and foreigners who travel to Ghana for tourism purposes.
“Currently, it is designed for the school system but we can extend it to other industries. We will exploit those options but now we want to make sure that the schools are happy, satisfied and they are getting value; which is what we are interested in,” he added.