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AI technology with a kindness twist for progress to increase happiness.
Synthesis saw this day as an
opportunity to use technology for good.
ynthesis Software Technologies, a of kindness and then smile. The artificial “We are officially extending International
software development company that intelligence then reads the person’s face Happiness Day for a week – because why
Suses innovative technologies to make and calculates their happiness score. The limit happiness?” says Howard Feldman,
businesses competitive, has launched an user is then promoted to share their score Synthesis Head of Marketing and People.
AI-powered app in honour of International on social media and ask others to continue Synthesis designed the app with a space
Happiness Day. The idea? To test if to spread happiness. to insert a charity of choice so charities
kindness makes us happy. The company is International Happiness Day takes place can be donated the assistance they need.
calling it the Happiness App. every year on the 20th of March. This was The company has also not limited acts of
The app asks users to perform an act implemented by the United Nations calling kindness to donations so everyone can
perform an act of kindness that resonates
with them.
The company will be collecting the
information to see what acts lead to the
greatest happiness and how far happiness
has spread.
“We used computer vision deep neural
nets to analyse facial expressions and
gauge a participant’s happiness. The bigger
the smile, the higher the score,” explains
Marais Neethling, Synthesis Principle of
Artificial Intelligence.
Synthesis has deep data, AI and ML
expertise and saw this as an opportunity to
spark viral kindness.

For more information contact:
Kim Furman 072 236 3572

First live instant payments in MEA with

Mastercard Track Instant Pay

he first businesses in the Middle it analyses received invoices using first Mastercard virtual card for use on
East and Africa region have started sophisticated machine learning to WhatsApp last year. The card giant once
Tto experience the seamless ease of identify those likely to be rejected, then again appointed Ukheshe as its partner in
Mastercard’s Track Instant Pay solution, authorises the rest for payment on the this solution.
in partnership with leading pan-African same day. These payments are sent Anton Coertzen, CCO at Ukheshe, says
fintech enablement partner, Ukheshe digitally, directly and securely to the this type of technology could change the
Technologies. supplier’s bank account via a Mastercard business landscape forever. “Mastercard’s
Track Instant Pay is a next- virtual card. It eliminates all the usual solution, combined with Ukheshe’s Eclipse
generation virtual card solution that manual processes, from verifying and platform, can change the way businesses
uses machine learning and straight- manually approving invoices to manual manage payments. We can add new
through processing to enable instant payments or lengthy check processing.” services to our clients’ suite so that it
payment of supplier invoices – the first grows with them when their needs, and
of its kind.“It safely and intelligently Improving the bottom line those of their own clients or suppliers,
authorises immediate payments to a Ukheshe and its turnkey Eclipse platform change over time. It fits perfectly into
supplier once a supplier submits an is already Mastercard’s preferred Ukheshe’s vision of fintech enablement,
invoice,” says Paul Selibas, president: implementation partner in South Africa, modernising business-to-business
channel solutions at Ukheshe. “First, having successfully launched Africa’s transactions and financial inclusion.”

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