Local firm to add new features to application

By DALE LUMA
A LOCAL Papua New Guinea information technology startup business is planning to add traceability features to an application that it developed to ensure that products can be traced back to the rightful producer.
Cofounder of Crysan Technology Ltd, Jonathan Kewe, which developed the Biluminous mobile application for selling locally-made bilums said the company was looking at technologies that would be used to track the origin of products.
Kewe said this would help to prevent products being copied and manufactured to be sold as counterfiet products.
“When talking about fake products like bilums you have to look at traceability and how you can authenticate products,” he said.
“We looked at expanding our concept because anybody can copy a product and sell it as a genuine PNG product.
“We are looking at technologies like block chain and all that traceability and authenticity of the product so that it could be traced back to the producer. The platform can also profile the producer as well.”
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