Is it true that that Jonathan Gikabu invented i-Tap idea ?
I read this article in
https://www.cnyakundi.com/2017/10/05/intellectual-property-theft-see-how-feminist-laziness-in-safaricom-saw-ron-webb-stealing-1-tap-concept-from-young-kenyan/
then researched in google.
https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant/nfc-payment-system-non-smartphones
Jonathan Gikabu a young Kenyan innovator and the founder of Innovase Limited, a tech start-up.
Over the last 3 months, a dispute has been ongoing between myself and Safaricom Limited regarding the recently relaunched Mpesa 1 Tap solution, part of which is a replication of a solution I have worked on since 2014 as a student at the University of Nairobi and had shared with them in confidence. All efforts to engage the giant telco on the matter fell on deaf ears, as such we proceeded to court on the 16th of June 2017 to have the matter determined.
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REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI
MILIMANI COMMERCIAL & ADMIRALTY DIVISION
CASE NO. OF 2017
JONATHAN MURANGIRI GIKABU….…….…… PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT
VERSUS
SAFARICOM (KENYA) LIMITED…………… DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT
PLAINTIFF’S WITNESS STATEMENT
NAME: JONATHAN MURANGIRI GIKABU
RESIDENCE: NGUMBA ESTATE, RUARAKA
OCCUPATION: TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIST
I am the Plaintiff herein and I wish to state as follows:
On 10th May 2017, Safaricom Limited launched a service known as M-pesa 1 Tap where one of the three solutions replicates an innovative NFC Mobile Payment System for Non-smartphones, my very own brainchild.
Safaricom Limited is not the originator of this idea. I worked on the building blocks of this idea back in Sep 2014 while working on an application for the 14th Round of the Grand Challenges Exploration funding under the topic ‘Enable Universal Acceptance of Mobile Money Payments’ by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
After evaluation, on the 20th Feb 2015, I was notified of my application’s subsequent success and funding for Phase I to the tune of $100,000 through the Equity Group Foundation (my listed affiliate Organization since I was an Equity African Leaders Program Scholar) pending financial due diligence. Unfortunately, the foundation was not in a position to receive the grant at the time. In light of that development, I approached the Chairman of the Department of Physics at the University of Nairobi, Prof. Julius Mwabora, where I was a student at the time with an urgent request to have the university stand in as my affiliate organization, a request that the university approved and consequently the project’s experiments began from 1st May 2015 to 31st October 2016 at the Department of Physics.
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https://www.cnyakundi.com/2017/10/05/intellectual-property-theft-see-how-feminist-laziness-in-safaricom-saw-ron-webb-stealing-1-tap-concept-from-young-kenyan/