Pelebox

Disrupting the norm, redening the status quo and thinking outside the box have become mainstream in the tech space. In complex countries like South Africa, riddled with limitations and constraints, disruption alone is not enough. Designing technology without paying attention to this local context will result in failure. As technology visionaries an... d designers, we embrace our local challenges as an opportunity space that denes our own box. This box induces creativity and shapes our frugal, relevant and context driven innovations. We call our highly localized approach to innovation, the "Think Inside" principle. In South Africa, a patient's experience tends to be one of long waiting times, typically above 3 hours on average. This poses potential adherence barriers which may lead to poor health outcomes and places a strain on the patients in terms of transport costs and loss of income. Having to take time o work to travel to the clinic is already an inconvenience but coupling this will long queues makes this unbearable. This is the core issue that Pelebox is positioned to address. Pelebox Smart Locker reduces the average waiting time from 3 hours to less than 2 minutesRead More