Founded by Todoe komla Olivier and Gozo Karley, Kamit Communications offers the:
YINN, a multifunction prepaid phone card which combines international telecommunication services and prepaid phone card payment method, allowing for online payment of small amounts, for instance by using a single prepaid phone card as an alternative online payment method.This way underserved consumers and...
Hash reports:Kelele, the African Bloggers Conference, was announced today at Barcamp Africa. That event has an incredible amount of energy and enthusiasm behind it, and it makes the perfect segue to the next big African community event: Kelele! This event was born out of connections made at TED Global in Tanzania last year, when 25+ bloggers from around Africa were brought face-to-face for the...
Inc. magazine profiles TED speaker, Herman Chinery-Hesse's latest company BSL, covered earlier:
When BSL launches this fall, it will let African entrepreneurs easily sell their products online and accept payments via mobile phone. Such transactions are extremely difficult in a country in which computers are rare and in which PayPal doesn't operate. If Chinery-Hesse can sign up enough merchants...
CS Monitor reports on the Jhai PC project:
Jhai requires a 10-year plan from each community it works with. A local entrepreneur must come up with a business plan that will employ villagers, maintain the computers, and pay for Internet access and electricity. Jhai participates in the process, providing business training and support along with classes on how teachers can integrate the computers...
"...Babawatoto is an e-commerce company that allows the Kenyan Diaspora to meet the needs of their family at home without the need for money transfer services. Kenyans abroad can pay school fees, provide vouchers for shopping or home utilities, buy stocks, or transfer mobile airtime directly through the Internet...We have a very efficient network set up and compared to the rest of our...
NaijaBlog profiles ecommerce in Nigeria:
E-commerce development has been painfully slow in Nigeria, given the lack of epayments infrastructure. ReLoadNG is already proving popular - you can use your local bank Interswitch card to buy PHCN and phone credit. Given there is no real-time reconciliation with the telcos apparently available, the system works by the company having sufficient scratch...
Image via WikipediaSean Park at the Park Paradigm writes:One of the most obvious - yet no less powerful or potentially transformational for it - themes is the combination of mobile communications, internet and geo-location technologies to disseminate information and increase connectedness from the bottom up. This emergent collective intelligence is all the more remarkable, given the typical...
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The founder of Kerawa discusses the company with Africaincorp:
The company is taking on the larger Newspaper companies,the community portals and the offline social/tribal networks, that have traditionally controlled the classified ad market.Information on Job,Romance,trade,service opportunities have been often limited to your access to the newspaper[financial/geographical],or a specific...
"...StartUpAfrica is a blog dedicated to new African companies in particular those startups that are in the Technology, Mobile , Internet and Web 2.0 space. Analysing, reviewing and profiling these companies at the same time providing market news, information, tutorials, tips and advice for the entrepreneurs behind...
Uchuuzi is an ecommerce company that sources and delivers goods to their clients offices and homes.Orders can made via cellphone and or internet. Methods of payment include paypal and major credit...
Emmanuel Magani and Debola Omololu are the founders of Debonair Publishing and online bookstore ,a first for Nigeria."...A fully integrated online bookstore.It became the first bookstore to enable online payments in Nigeria via the interswitch platform...its vision is to raise business leaders and stimulate the birth of business ideas across Africa via the books being sold...",Emmanuel...
Herman Chinery-Hess, a TED Global speaker covered earlier, is the founder of BSL which has just introduced a SMS/Internet Scratch Card- Global Electronic Payment Solution:
It allows the average African to enter into remote and electronic business transactions...Permit the average, small, rural African business operator to easily engage in global transactions for the first time...It will enable...
Samuel Babarinde is the founder of Super Eye Spex a discount online optical firm.The company's philanthropic arm "...will be donating prescription glasses worth $200,000 to the people of Kenya in April...
Dorothy Duncan founded by Dorothy Ghettuba and Mandy Duncan carries pieces by independent fashion designers from various parts of the world. A recent Evan Carmichael profile stated that:
Both co-founders (Mandy Duncan and Dorothy Ghettuba) wanted to work together and a year ago they decided to do so. The company has been in full operation for 5 months. The company has grown from simply being an...
Babar Bhatti reports on a Peer-to-Peer Dialup Networking system dubbed as the "poor man’s broadband":
PMB is a mixture of peer-to-peer (P2P) software - touted as the internet’s future - and pre-internet techniques, whereby users dialed other computers directly to exchange files. It is based on a peer-to-peer software, called BitTorrent,which allows computers to talk directly to each...
African Loft reports on VTN ,a new mobile phone payment system:
At VTN, you are not tied down to one bank. VTN is a revolutionary payment engine for buyers and sellers of services in Nigeria The virtual account can be loaded at any branch of a designated Bank in Nigeria. Once funded, you can begin to pay for services nationwide. It’s built for increased flexibility in accessing your money...
Co-founded by TED Fellow Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie a co-founder of the Nollywood foundation, Aachron is "...a cultural brokerage firm that educates clients about the equity value of different forms of global African arts and cultural knowledge. Aachron provides art management and art-equity consultancy to art collectors, creates mainline and online (e-knowledge) content for international...
FunAfric is "...an internet based music vending and Entertainment Company. Its core business objective is the provision of a platform for distributing a wide range of music forms and movies, mainly of the African genre, over the Internet, in a digital format. It will also provide entertainment news, information and sales of memorabilia and other such items..."
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Nakumatt is one of Kenya's leading retailers with a total of 19 branches all over Kenya the company's services and products include:
-Smartcard
-Gift voucher & Cards
-Shop n...
"...iVeri develops, and distributes globally, software and support infrastructure platforms that allow companies to enter the exciting realm of electronic commerce..." The application offerings include:
-transaction switching
-reporting for bank and merchants
-security and transaction...
The roll-out of shareholder/investment services continues ProShare is an "... investor friendly forum for investors, financial institutions, analysts and service providers in the capital market to interact and promote intelligent exchange of information and strategies needed to profitably engage the...
Another entrant in the business of cashless money transfers ,is
Top Up Nigeria which enables non- residents to top- up Nigerian mobile phone...
Founded by Gbanju Patt Aruwayo-Obe "...Westagora is an online market place for buyers/consumers and sellers/suppliers as well as small business owners in West Africa. With a desire to connect the West African market space, Westagora offers a platform where people and businesses meet everyday to connect with each other to trade. Westagora aims to fix the West African inefficient and cumbersome...