Comments on: Kenya's Mobile Banking Revolution

By: Shari Aaron

Shari Aaron — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:35:48 +0000

Kenya’s Mobile Banking Revolution http://t.co/Dyv5Ba3C

By: Omidyar Network: $500,000 for Web TV in Kenya

Omidyar Network: $500,000 for Web TV in Kenya — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:08:03 +0000

[...] the up-and-coming technology centers of sub-Saharan Africa. Much of this is based on mobile phones. Kenya’s Safaricom started a mobile banking revolution with its M-PESA payment system in recent years, and rural Kenyan farmers are now using Google Docs [...]

By: John

John — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:30:15 +0000

As a globetrotter myself, I was glad of signing up to an Online Banking service with my bank but the possibilities of M-PESA is amazing!

By: Mobile payments just got a whole lot easier « ThreeDimensionalPeople

Mobile payments just got a whole lot easier « ThreeDimensionalPeople — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:32:50 +0000

[...] let’s just work with the messy reality of what’s there today. Here Africa’s Safaricom has shown us up (ie the West) by creating a parallell payments system piggy backing on the existing [...]

By: M-Pesa Wins Award for Safaricom | Africaincorp [Beta DEV]

M-Pesa Wins Award for Safaricom | Africaincorp [Beta DEV] — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:34:59 +0000

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By: Kenya’s Mobile Banking Revolution | RADIODELICATESSEN

Kenya’s Mobile Banking Revolution | RADIODELICATESSEN — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:17:19 +0000

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By: Time banking your way through the economic crisis | The Pop!Tech Blog | Accelerating the Positive Impact of Worldchanging People and Ideas

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:21:50 +0000

[...] currencies or forms of credit currently exist? According to Janko Roettgers’ interesting post on Kenya’s mobile technology, mobile phone airtime started becoming a surrogate for money in Kenya. A few years ago, Kenya’s [...]

By: Micropagamenti sul cellulare (sms) in Kenya | Consulente web (m4ss.net)

Micropagamenti sul cellulare (sms) in Kenya | Consulente web (m4ss.net) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:06:27 +0000

[...] “Eagle shared another striking example of the transformative power of mobile payments during his ETech talk. Rural communities used to have to pay a lot of money upfront in order to get a modern well capable of providing clean drinking water. Now, there are companies that install these wells for free, complete with an integrated cell phone payment system. Want some water? Just pay as you go with your M-PESA account.” [Via GIGAOM] [...]

By: Mobile banking in Kenya spurs mini economic revolution « The Coconut Wireless

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:51:20 +0000

[...] in Fiji to understand what the possibilities for the technology are. Consider the example of mobile banking in Kenya. The incumbent operator Safaricom (a Vodafone partner) launched a service that would allow for [...]

By: Come i cellulari hanno trasformato il Kenya - The New Blog Times

Come i cellulari hanno trasformato il Kenya - The New Blog Times — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:02:04 +0000

[...] ricercatore ha avviato in loco una startup chiamata TxtEagle. L’obbiettivo – ironizza Janko Roettgers su GigaOM – è molto simile a quello del Mechanical Turk di Amazon: far eseguire un [...]

By: Disruptive Mobility Roundup: Mobile Banking, SXSW, and the User Experience of Money | Oscar Scarlett design blog

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:30:58 +0000

[...] Kenya’s Mobile Banking Revolutions The story of Safaricom and its mobile payment service M-PESA is well known by now. The service enables its customers to send money to family members who often living in rural areas who do not have access to formal banking services. Perhaps most interestingly they are able to pay for goods and services using airtime minutes. Om Malik points out that other uses for this kind of virtual currency are rapidly emerging citing paying a taxi cab fare, getting money out of an ATM without a bank account, and cellphone-enabled wells that provide clean drinking water. [...]

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Servicio móvil novedoso: Banca virtual (Inglés) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:25:26 +0000

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By: “Dans le domaine du mobile, le Kenya est en avance sur l’Europe” : Entreprise Globale

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:00:27 +0000

[...] résume Nathan Eagle, dont les propos sont rapportés par le site GigaOm, les villageois devaient avancer une très importante somme d’argent pour se fournir en [...]

By: Five products and services that started in the developing world that are taking off in the developed world–and one more than might » azeem.azhar

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:16:51 +0000

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By: Mobile innovations in Kenya « Raja Jasti’s Blog - Renaissance Thinking

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:39:58 +0000

[...] has an interesting post about mobile revolution in areas such as banking in [...]

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:43:20 +0000

Safaricom currently exchanges 5% of Kenya’s GDP at 200 million a month. All that in slightly over a years time. The same service is now used in Afghanistan to pay the troops. http://internetthought.blogspot.com/2008/09/safaricom-m-pesa-is-just-cool.html