My Smart City wins the Brand South Africa Social Cohesion Award

My Smart City (MSC) has won the South African Social Cohesion Award!

This auspicious announcement was made at Brand South Africa’s Play Your Part Awards in Johannesburg on 17 March 2022.

The special event was the culmination of a year-long journey that Brand South Africa has been on to celebrate ten years of the Play Your Part Programme.

The winners were presented with R5 000 per category to support their initiatives and were onboarded as Play Your Part Ambassadors. In addition, Play Your Part Ambassadors awarded the overall winner the sum of R25 000.

“We developed the MSC platform to give citizens a voice. We are thrilled that this voice carries across the nation and that privately funded initiatives like this get the recognition they deserve. Well done to the MSC team. Thank you, Brand South Africa, for recognising the importance of using tech to effect change”, said Kennedy Mogotsi, COO of Acumen Software.

Terence Rei, Head of Marketing at Acumen Software, regarding the Brand South Africa Social Cohesion Award for MSC, stated,

“Congratulations to the My Smart City team. It shows that Acumen Software’s innovative development of the citizen-centred platform has risen to the challenges and opportunities facing South Africa’s metropolitan centres. This platform gives South Africans a real voice in resolving service delivery issues removing citizen frustration and promoting trust and accountability for the municipality”.

My Smart City (MSC) has created a thriving ecosystem where citizens stand together and effect change in their cities through ‘crowd pushing.’ The goal is to relieve service delivery frustrations for citizens by streamlining workflows through innovative and user-friendly technology. More than 27 000 citizens are tracking their logged issues in real-time from the MSC platform. This ‘crowd pushing’ effect generates real action and meaningful change.

“The platform is changing citizens’ lives with access to an easy-to-use platform to log all issues in their city, allowing the city to respond quickly. We’re incredibly proud to be the recipients of this award. Thank you, Brand South Africa, for recognition and being a national brand that inspires its people”, said Joao Zoio, CEO of Acumen Software.