{"id":180021,"date":"2024-09-06T04:41:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T02:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-smart-applications-to-expand-to-botswana\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T04:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T02:41:15","slug":"botswana-smart-applications-to-expand-to-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-smart-applications-to-expand-to-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Smart Applications to Expand to Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Biometric tech company Smart Applications International plans to expand into Botswana to capture a larger market share in the southern African country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">William Techera, the firm&#8217;s marketing manager, stated that this expansion aims to foster innovation across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;We believe that by investing in these young entrepreneurs, we are not only supporting their individual aspirations but also contributing to the overall development of the African continent,&#8221; said Techera at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409050472.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Biometric tech company Smart Applications International plans to expand into Botswana to capture a larger market share in the southern African country. William Techera, the firm&#8217;s marketing manager, stated that this expansion aims to foster innovation across the continent. &#8220;We believe that by investing in these young entrepreneurs, we are not only supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,6142,4718,2462,9873,257,9353,254],"class_list":["post-180021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-applications","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-expand","tag-news","tag-smart","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}