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SafeMotos

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SafeMotos Ltd is a start-up company based in Kigali the capital city of Rwanda. [1] company uses a Uber influenced smartphone app focuses on safety, which enables consumers, especially motorcycle taxis users to save their lives, by being linked with a safer driver, which owns their own motos. By June 2015, the SafeMotos app and its services were publicly available, starting in Rwanda.

[2] SafeMotos was found by Barrett Nash, a Canadian entrepreneur with 8 years experience in Africa, and Peter Kariuki, a Kenyan software engineer who became fluent in C++ when he was 14, in 2014. In January 2015, the company started experimentation in Kigali until June where its app went off in public. [3] Two months after the launch in Kigali, the company won the the Pivot East 2015 competition held in Nairobi, Kenya. [4][5]Now, the company get a raise of US$131,000 through funding from different investors. SafeMotos does not only help rides to move safely. [6]However, it saves their lives by addressing accidents caused by motorcycles taxis, which account to be 80% in Kigali according to Kigali City Council

Safety of Motorcycle Taxi

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Motorcycle taxis are a key cause of road deaths. Cheap and able to weave through traffic, there are now more motorcycles produced globally than cars. [7]. However, they are also very dangerous, with the Rwandan police blaming motorcycle taxis for 80% of road accidents in only Kigali.

[7] SafeMotos believes that the complacency which perceives road deaths as a matter of fate is wrong: they are an avoidable tragedy just like war or disease and SafeMotos is a part of the solution for avoiding some of the 268,000 Africans who die every year from road deaths by using a safety focused app.

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Your username

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Your submission at Articles for creation: SafeMotos (November 27)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.
This submission appears to be taken from http://safemotos.com/2015/02/carma-axlr8r-meet-safemotos/. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly exists under a compatible licence and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.
You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work. /wia /tlk 15:01, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]


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Hello! SafeMotos, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! /wia /tlk 15:01, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Draft:SafeMotos concern

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Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:SafeMotos, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Your draft article, Draft:SafeMotos

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Hello, SafeMotos. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "SafeMotos".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Puffin Let's talk! 10:33, 25 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ Mulupi, Dinfin (October 13, 2014). "Start-up snapshot: Uber for motorcycle taxis in Rwanda". Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  2. ^ O’Brien, Greg (February 19, 2015). "Carma AXLR8R meet: SafeMotos" Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  3. ^ Staff Writer (July 23, 2015). "DumaWorks, Shield Finance, MakaraoTV, Arifu & SafeMotos Emerge Winners of Pivot East 2015". Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  4. ^ IBOMLLC TEAM (November 17, 2015). "Women-Led Bahati Books Wins Second Edition of Africa Tech Pitch LDN". Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  5. ^ Jackson, Tom (October 16, 2015). "Rwanda’s SafeMotos raises $131k for further experimentation". Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  6. ^ New African Magazine (August 13, 2015). "African apps target road fatalities". Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  7. ^ Ngoboka, Ivan (May 31, 2015). "Two IT geeks out to end taxi-moto accidents". The NewTimes. Retrived November 27, 2015.
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