{"id":54,"date":"2021-03-09T07:11:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T07:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/?p=54"},"modified":"2021-03-09T07:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T07:11:47","slug":"patrick-buchana-listed-on-forbes-top-30-young-african-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Buchana listed on Forbes\u2019 top 30 young African talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AC Group\u00a0Chief Executive Officer has been listed among top 30 young African talents by Forbes Afrique, a Francophone monthly publication which covers African economic news and its actors.<\/p>\n<p>In its October edition, the Paris publication, with a presence in 23 French-speaking countries in Africa and other continents, including France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, featured top 30 young African talents who have a significant economic impact on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Buchana founded the company in 2015, and over recent years steered it to become a leading provider of smart and interactive IT solutions in Rwanda and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The firm partnered with the Government and bus operators to put in place Tap&amp;Go system to enhance the smart cities agenda in Rwanda and has since established a presence in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon and is set to debut in Nairobi before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The firm facilitates smart transport by digitising public transport payments that enable passengers to board public buses without using hard cash but rather smart cards.<\/p>\n<p>The firm\u2019s technology has revolutionised city transport eliminating the need for cash which often leads to theft, queues, among other challenges, in Kigali and Yaound\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC Group\u00a0Chief Executive Officer has been listed among top 30 young African talents by Forbes Afrique, a Francophone monthly publication which covers African economic news and its actors. In its October edition, the Paris publication, with a presence in 23 French-speaking countries in Africa and other continents, including France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, featured top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acgroup.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}