Kamil Shafiq is one of the co-founders of POKET, a startup creating a crowdsourced, consensus-driven registry of undocumented places in the emerging world. Using technology suited to the lower specification mobile phones and data constraints witnessed in frontier markets, POKET drives new, previously undiscoverable insights into unmapped and undocumented areas. By incentivizing users to propose and verify points of interest around them, POKET creates a curated map/registry of new places and points of interest for industries like financial services, government institutions, consumer-packaged goods companies and more!

This is the first podcast episode produced in co-operation with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity's Global Maker Challenge, a startup competition seeking out the best young companies supporting inclusive and sustainable development across four categories: (1) Innovation for Peace & Justice, (2) Sustainable & Healthy Food for All, (3) Innovation for Inclusive Trade, and (4) Climate Change. POKET won the competition in the category Inclusive Trade. 

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

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