biNU has created an app presenting Zimbabwe’s draft constitution, allowing Zimbabweans to access the document on their feature phones and smartphones ahead of the March 16 referendum.
Feature phone users will be required to download a small Java app onto their devices before accessing the draft constitution.
According to biNU their app uses cloud-based compression technologies, that will ensure users do not use a lot of data while using it. It will also load pages completely and efficiently even if the connection is poor.
“Our technology is 10 times more efficient than regular mobile browsers,” said biNU.
This comes after the Sunday Mail newspaper in Zimbabwe revealed the country’s Constitution Select Committee (Copac) required more than US$500,000 to print hard copies of the constitution to be distributed among the citizens.
In an interview with the Sunday Mail, Copac co-chair Cde Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana admitted the country was facing a shortage in the supply of the draft constitution documents with just a few weeks until the referendum.
“We need to make sure that every Zimbabwean has access to the Draft so that they can vote from an informed view,” said Mangwana.
biNU, a platform that transforms feature phones into smartphone-like devices through various applications, is getting major traction in Africa, where feature phones are still in the majority.
