CALABAR, NIGERIA — StayKnown, the personal safety technology built by 6Clement Joshua, has reached another significant milestone following its nomination by Google, bringing further recognition to a technology developed from Cross River State, Nigeria, with ambitions extending far beyond Africa.
The nomination represents an important moment in the journey of StayKnown and the wider vision behind 6Clement Joshua: proving that sophisticated, globally relevant technology can be conceived, designed and built from Africa.
StayKnown was created around one fundamental idea — people should be able to remain connected to those they trust when their safety matters most.
Unlike a conventional social or location-sharing application, StayKnown has been developed as a wider safety ecosystem designed to help individuals communicate their safety status, establish trusted contacts, conduct safety-focused visits, share important location information and create faster channels of awareness when circumstances become concerning.
From Calabar to a Global Safety Vision
For founder and developer Clement Joshua, the Google nomination is particularly meaningful because StayKnown was not created inside one of the world's established technology capitals.
It was built from Nigeria.
The development journey has involved substantial personal investment, research, engineering, infrastructure and continuous expansion of the technology, with the long-term objective of creating a platform capable of contributing meaningfully to personal safety around the world.
“StayKnown was never built simply to become another application people download and forget. We built it because there are moments in life when knowing where someone is, whether they are safe, and whether they may need help can become incredibly important. Our vision is to build technology around those moments.”
Nominated By Google
The Google nomination provides another level of visibility for that mission.
It also demonstrates the growing possibilities available to independent African technology builders who are developing products intended to compete and operate on an international scale.
Technology Designed Around Being Known
At the heart of StayKnown is a straightforward principle:
When someone you care about is travelling, meeting someone, visiting an unfamiliar location, working late, commuting, attending an event or facing another potentially vulnerable situation, they should not simply become unknown.
StayKnown is being developed to create a technological relationship between users and the people they deliberately trust.
Its broader ecosystem incorporates safety visits, check-ins, trusted-contact functionality, location-based safety information, emergency-oriented communication and other systems intended to make personal safety more connected and actionable.
The company is also continuing research and development around intelligent safety technology, automation and additional systems that could expand how StayKnown detects, communicates and responds to safety-related circumstances.
A Milestone, Not the Final Destination
While the Google nomination is being celebrated as an important achievement, the StayKnown team views it as part of a much larger journey.
The objective remains international growth.
6Clement Joshua believes StayKnown can eventually have applications across individuals and families as well as sectors including travel, education, transportation, hospitality, workplaces, sports and other environments where knowing that someone is safe can matter.
The company is also open to conversations with strategic partners, technology companies, investors and organizations capable of contributing to the next stage of StayKnown's development and global expansion.
“Recognition is important, but what matters most is what the technology eventually does for people. We want StayKnown to become something people around the world can depend on when safety becomes more important than convenience.”
An African Technology Story Still Being Written
The nomination adds another chapter to an ambitious technology story emerging from Calabar.
For 6Clement Joshua, it is also evidence that location should not determine the size of an idea.
A technology can begin in Cross River State and still be designed for London, Lagos, New York, Johannesburg, Dubai, Paris, Nairobi and anywhere else in the world.
That remains the philosophy behind StayKnown.
Built in Africa. Designed around human safety. Intended for the world.
About StayKnown
StayKnown is a personal safety technology developed by 6Clement Joshua. The platform is designed around helping people stay connected with trusted individuals through safety-focused communication, visits, check-ins, location intelligence and emergency-oriented functionality.
StayKnown is available on Google Play.
StayKnown — Built by 6Clement Joshua.
