{"id":528356,"date":"2021-10-13T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T07:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=528356"},"modified":"2021-10-13T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T07:14:58","slug":"business-talk-carina-smith-allin-shares-didis-expansion-plans-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/528356\/business-talk-carina-smith-allin-shares-didis-expansion-plans-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Carina Smith-Allin shares Didi&#8217;s expansion plans for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carina Smith-Allin is the head of public relations and communications for Sub-Saharan Africa at Didi, the world\u2019s biggest mobile transportation platform.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Allin is a seasoned communication professional with more than a decade&#8217;s experience in communications and public relations.<\/p>\n<p>She has previously worked as Head of Communications for Pick &#8216;n Pay and South32 before joining Didi in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Smith-Allin explains how Didi is different from other ride-hailing platforms and the key value proposition it offers to customers.<\/p>\n<p>She shares the expansion plans for Didi in South Africa and how Didi has prepared its platform for the local market, to ensure both driver and rider safety.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview is embedded below. You can find all Business Talk with Michael Avery interviews<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gRx5BUfkahY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carina Smith-Allin shares Didi&#8217;s expansion plans for South Africa and the key value proposition it offers to customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":528362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[15578,16304],"class_list":["post-528356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-business-talk","tag-didi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528790,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528356\/revisions\/528790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}