Aziel KU and CodeTech, Finding Tech Solution For Real World Challenges  

App development may still be considered a niche market in Belize, as local technological advancements are finding their place in the day-to-day lives of Belizeans. Undoubtedly, however, as our society advances, the demand for innovative technological solutions will increase. That is why Aziel Ku and his team at Codetech are tapping into this market to provide everyday technological solutions for real-world challenges in business. The company’s name may not be familiar, but you may have likely interacted with some of their work. News Five’s Paul Lopez has more for us in tonight’s installment of Belize On Reel.

 

Paul Lopez, Reporting

Meet Aziel Ku, the owner of Codetech, a tech company based in Orange Walk Town that has been developing apps that make a difference.

 

Aziel Ku, Owner, Codetech

“We have been very blessed that God has given us options and our technology has now adapted really by the government to see its potential and they have embraced technology in moving forward, and the postal services reached out to us about the technology we have done. As Vistro we did live tracking, you could track the food order in real time and those were the components that helped a lot for the postal service. We worked with the sports council where they wanted a way to help federations and the ministry be self-reliant with fund raising both internationally and here locally. So we built a platform where they can share, sell tickets and fundraise and provide revenue for the different federation.”

 

Recently, Ku and his team collaborated with the Orange Walk Town Council on a software programme that allows drivers to renew their driver’s licence online. And the process is as simple as it gets. The licence holder simply opens the software, scans the barcode on their licence, and follows the steps provided, including paying online. As you heard, Ku is the developer behind Vistro, a popular delivery service app.

 

Aziel Ku

“My question is always, why do you want to do it, what is the reason. As a developer if you want to do it for money, it won’t work, because it is hard. And at the end of the day all you have is your passion. All I have is my passion, so when it is hard, no one is using it, you promote it, push it on Facebook, pay for ads, it doesn’t work then all you have is that dream and passion and that is what you need. That is where the project should start. Vistro didn’t make it in the first five months. We pushed it and nothing happened, until the sixth month we got one or two people that started to use it and realized how helpful it was and overnight thirty thousand people started to download it and we were there.”

 

Aziel Ku has been featured in the U.S. Embassy Entrepreneur Spotlight Initiative. He was also the recipient of the Belize Youth Award in the Innovation in Technology category. With his ability to develop innovative software, one would think that Ku spent years in school to develop the skills he now possesses. On the contrary, he says that he is self-taught.

 

Aziel Ku

“I learnt a lot of it online and practice and failing and burning a lot of computers. My passion is that I want to be someone that helps. I want to build stuff that helps people, make a difference and inspire other people and I found my gift is in technology to be able to understand and explain to others how they can use technology to help them forward. My story is not much different than anybody’s one. My mom is a taxi driver, my dad is a teacher, I just had to be passionate about it and go through it. So, I feel like it is niche, but it is because of the hard work.”

 

Recently, Ku and his team have been pushing their interactive artificial intelligence (AI) software called Edith. The Belize Postal Services is already using A.I. Centaur Communications is also using the service.

 

Aziel Ku

“She is an AI software that connects to company system. Centaur is one of our clients where she connects to their own internal software so people can chat, get an account information and balancer through messenger. We also developed Edith so anyone can use her. You can take a picture of a homework, a parent can do so and ask Edith to explain it in Spanish, Mandarin and she will break it down, provide questions, teachers can upload their curriculum to Edith and she will help them develop plans. That is our vision for this year.”

 

Reporting for News Five, I am Paul Lopez.