Russian President, Vladimir Putin has credited Yandex (parent company of Yango) for bringing up-to-date intelligent technologies to Africa. The Russian President made the comments during the recent Russian-African summit in Sochi.
Mr Musheg Sahakian, Global Expansion Director for Yango who was invited to the event shared latest updates on Yango’s global expansion and success story in general. Yango currently works in 18 countries, including Ghana and Ivory Coast.
Over 700,000 drivers work with the service on an active basis.
The company in the last two years earned over 5 billion USD in Russia.
Mr. Sahakian stressed that good earnings for drivers together with affordable prices and high-quality service for users have been made possible due to the unique Yandex ecosystem of services (Search, Maps, Navigations, Artificial Intelligence, Voice Assistant and 90 others), which distinguishes it from its competitors.
“Russia is going back to Africa with a high-tech product. The quality of our IT solutions is seen in the fact that Russia is the only market where domestic internet services compete successfully with major global players in open competition,” stated Mr. Sahakian.
Mr. Sahakian spoke about Yandex’s self-driving cars which are currently being tested in several countries and already made 1,000,000 miles of driverless rides. These are ‘ideal drivers’: they never get tired or need to sleep, they obey rules and self-learn over millions of hours of driving experience.
And while the future is coming, and cars still need drivers, Yango pays great attention to the safety and security of rides. Yango’s technologies can automatically track speed and can check how long a driver has been behind the wheel, automatically ban policy violators from the system, and even conduct technical and visual vehicle inspections.
What’s more, Yango’s own cameras can track a driver’s fatigue and attention analyzing their mimics and eye movement in a real-time mode.
“To sum things up, I want to just say again that we’re focused on and care about Africa. We see a continent with tremendous potential and a great will to working with Russian companies. Here’s to hoping this forum will help all of us start an even more productive dialogue,” said Mr Sahakian added.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM