One operating system for Africa's rural economies — mass production, mass processing and mass consumption, built for the institutions running the work
Smart Rural Homes is commercializing Africa's rural homes: one operating system for the three movements driving rural economies — mass production, mass processing and mass consumption. The brief: turn rural homesteads into productive, bankable assets, and give every layer of the programme — from the homestead to the ministry — a single platform covering homestead registration and listings, a produce marketplace, community finance and coordination dashboards.
- Client
- Smart Rural Homes
- AgriTech · Rural Development
- Delivered At
- TradeICAD
- My Role
- UX Engineer
Homes registered on the platform
Countries in the programme's reach
Chambers of commerce connected
- End-to-end UX engineering — design system, information architecture and every interface layer, from the public site to internal dashboards
- Six role-based dashboards: institutions, homesteads, district administrators, the prisons service, digital centre operators and the Ministry of ICT command centre
- The Equality Wallet — a seven-module community finance experience spanning campaigns, top-ups, community funds, investments and loans
- Digital Centres network: public directory and map of all 192 centres, with per-centre wallets, operating dashboards and enrollment flows
- Marketplace for rural produce and goods with cart and checkout, plus an AI chat agent with vision for listing inspection and deal analysis
Smart Rural Homes joins the pieces of the rural economy — the homestead, the inputs it needs, the money that moves through it and the institutions that coordinate it — into one platform with a shared editorial design language.
Homestead Listings & Dashboards
Homesteads listed as productive assets, with galleries, boundary mapping and owner dashboards
Rural Marketplace
Produce, processed goods and inputs from registered homesteads, with cart, checkout and progressive filtering
Equality Wallet
Community finance in seven modules: campaigns, top-ups, community funds, investments, loans and history
Role-Based Dashboards
Purpose-built workspaces for institutions, districts, the prisons service and the Ministry of ICT command centre
Digital Centres Network
Every digital centre in Zimbabwe on one map — 192 centres across 10 provinces, with per-centre wallets and enrollment
AI Assistant with Vision
Chat agent that inspects listing photos, analyses deals and searches the platform conversationally
One operating system for the rural economy
Every digital centre in Zimbabwe, on one map
A marketplace for rural produce and goods
Live at smartruralhomes.com, with the Ngezi Phase 01 agritech pilot field-live
Homes registered on the platform
Digital centres live in the public directory
Role-based dashboards in production
Carefully selected technologies for performance, scalability, and developer experience.
Frontend
Core technologies powering the application's foundation and user experience.
Maps & Motion
AI
Infrastructure
Technologies
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