Innovator turns phone into professional consultation tool

You could soon start getting charged for every consultation you make on phone call, if the pace of adoption of a new innovation developed by a Nairobi-based lawyer spreads across the country and beyond.

Victor Mwago, an advocate of the High Court, realised a year ago from a pilot study that many Kenyan professionals would be ready to pay for specialised knowledge, computed from the number of minutes a consultation would take. But his idea was borne out of the Covid-19 pandemic economic situation, after the country went into its first lockdown, making physical consultations difficult across county borders.