Ilan Oosting urges mobile money platforms to remember the important role feature phones play—a song SlimTrader has been singing since our inception: The current scenario has solutions aimed at smartphone users, who frankly are the minority by far. Yes, there are reports that close to 50 percent or more of the mobile subscribers in countries [...]
Archive for May, 2012
The Smart Money Isn’t on Smartphones
Posted in Feature Phones, tagged Africa, M-PESA, Mobile Money, Statistics on May 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
M-PESA, By the (Really, Really Big) Numbers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, M-PESA, Mobile, Mobile Money, Statistics on May 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The most important ways of measuring the seismic cultural and economic shifts associated with the rapid spread of mobile technology in Africa are often incalculable. Even rogue economists and statisticians armed with adventurous research methods and fancy algorithms will have a difficult time quantifying, say, reduced stress levels of people completing a task in 10 [...]
Returning to the Notore Program (and, Yes, Blogging)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, Agriculture, Mobile, Notore on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
First, some housekeeping: After a long layoff, we’re reconstituting the blog. And we couldn’t have selected a better time. We have many exciting developments to share with you. So, please, check back here weekly for updates. Let’s pick up where we left off. The Notore pilot program received a lot of interest from our retailers, [...]
