[kictanet] NEPAD e-Africa Commission aka e-Payment Gateway

Tue Jun 24 18:16:32 EAT 2008

Lucy,

I understand where you are coming from we should have our own Payment
Gateway if we are to achieve the vision 2030.

We have developed an online payment gateway using M-Pesa and we are
working with CBA (Commercial Bank of Africa). The Gateway allows
individuals to transact for services either in government offices or pay
for KPLC, NHIF, NSSF, FLY540, especially now that the Government is in the
process of rolling out ICT Village and computerizing its services that
will allow people to have to them online (e-Government).

You can view a demo page on

http://www.mobilepay.i360microsystems.com

The beauty is that organizations will not do a way with their already
existing sites we provide API’s that will help the organization to
integrate it to the Payment Gateway easily.

I believe if we are to move to the next level we must start by
standardizing our own operations. Of late we have government corporates
that want to introduce smartcards but do we want to feel our wallets with
cards? I think with own card we should be able to have all government
details in it.

We have developed a multi application smartcard system.

I strongly believe the Nepad project should be done by Kenyans because we
understand our market better. South Africa managed to localize all online
payments and that is the way we should go sooner than later.

If you wish to receive a detailed presentation on how the software
works, please email your request to per-erick at i360microsystems.com

Thanks and looking forward to your valuable comments.

Regards

Per-Erick Mulamba
Managing Director
360 Microsystems Ltd
3rd Floor Pioneer Hse, Moi Avenue.

> Alex
>
>> The Kenya Government, through its Tourist Trust, with which
> The NEPAD e-Africa Commission has been working closely on
>> this project, provided funds and seconded a person to help
>> with the establishment of the e-payment gateway in Kenya.
>> NEPAD Africa e-Payment Gateway
>
> LK
> --- On Sat, 6/21/08, Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] NEPAD e-Africa Commission aka e-Payment Gateway
> To: "Lucy Kimani" <lkimani at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "kictanet-lists" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 4:28 AM
>
> I lost my faith in NEPAD ages ago because of their protracted EASSy delays
> and
> in-fightings. Kenya's e-Transactions bill should help us avoid their next
> one;)
>
> See most popular story "e-Transactions: stakeholders input needed"
> <http://ictconsumers.org>
>
> I learn Internet Explorer users (version 6) are having a problem viewing-
> meanwhile please use Firefox as we look for Windows-installed computers to
> solve the problem. <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/>
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 6/20/08, Lucy Kimani <lkimani at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Lucy Kimani <lkimani at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [kictanet] NEPAD e-Africa Commission aka e-Payment Gateway
>> To: alex.gakuru at yahoo.com
>> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 4:32 PM
>> We dont seem to learn!!! Why should each country for
>> example Kenya not have its own e-payment gateway? Every
>> time you involve third parties in transactions, you up the
>> prices its basic economics 101 which makes one wonder
>>  "that the cost of deploying this e-payment gateway
>> is about US$100 million and is estimated to be more
>> economical than if each country were to design and
>> implement its own gateway."
>> Why is it so hard to get our act together, and amend the
>> necessary laws so that e-transactions are legally
>> recognized, and then let the private sector build the
>> e-payment gateways!!
>>
>> In any case did anybody bother to shop around to find out
>> how much an e-payment gateway actually costs, or was the
>> above accepted as the gospel truth without facts?
>>
>> NEPAD e-Africa Commission
>> project progress is hailed
>> The NEPAD e-Africa Commission Steering Committee held its
>> 9th meeting on 11 June 2008 in Pretoria, South Africa and
>> hailed progress made by the organisation on projects
>> approved by the committee such as UHURUNET submarine cable,
>> UMOJANET terrestrial cable, the Kigali Protocol, the NEPAD
>> e-Schools Initiative and the NEPAD e-2010 Project.
>> The meeting was attended by representatives from Botswana,
>> Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa.
>> Notable among them were Kenya High Commissioner to South
>> Africa Tom Amolo; Muhammad Zannah, Minister (Political),
>> Nigeria High Commission in South Africa; and Mamadou M.
>> Seck, Director of NEPAD in Senegal.
>> The meeting particularly took note of the NEPAD e-Schools
>> Initiative stakeholders conference organised by the
>> e-Africa Commission in Johannesburg, South Africa in April
>> 2008 and the on-going activities with the various countries
>> and agencies to develop this project.
>> Progress on NEPAD e-2010 project
>> The NEPAD e-2010 Project was approved by the 7th Steering
>> Committee meeting in 2007 and since then progress has been
>> made on development of the website portal, the software for
>> the booking system, and the NEPAD Africa e-Payment Gateway.
>> The Kenya Government, through its Tourist Trust, with which
>> the NEPAD e-Africa Commission has been working closely on
>> this project, provided funds and seconded a person to help
>> with the establishment of the e-payment gateway in Kenya.
>> NEPAD Africa e-Payment Gateway
>> The NEPAD Africa e-Payment Gateway is an e-tourism project
>> intended to benefit the African continent by reducing the
>> costs of doing tourism business.
>> The project will enable African citizens and small and
>> medium sized enterprises (SMEs) of African countries to
>> receive direct payments from anywhere in the world in a
>> more cost effective and efficient way similar to that used
>> in developed economies.
>> The objective is to bring revenue directly into Africa
>> using an African owned and operated infrastructure that
>> will directly impact the GDP of African economies.
>> Dr. Henry Chasia, the NEPAD e-Africa Commission Executive
>> Deputy Chairperson, says that while engaging in this
>> project the commission will seek to enhance policy and
>> regulatory reforms to facilitate and accelerate electronic
>> commerce.
>> Lyndall Shope-Mafole, Director-General in the South African
>> Department of Communications, and one of the executive
>> committee members, emphasised the importance of the project
>> to the South African Government in its efforts to ensure
>> that all African countries participate in and benefit from
>> the FIFA World Cup 2010 which is being hosted by South
>> Africa.
>> Says Ahmed Kassam, the project manager: “The project is
>> intended to provide African businesses, citizens as well as
>> governments with efficient and affordable access to
>> electronic commerce platforms; and provide each country
>> with the ability to increase tourism and SME sector
>> revenues without incurring the high costs charged by
>> existing third party platforms residing outside of Africa.
>> “The project could secure e-tourism transactions by
>> creating an escrow account that would hold the payment
>> until the customer was satisfied.”
>> The project is a joint partnership between African and
>> international investors initially targeting the tourism
>> sector but broad in scope to cater for the SMEs in other
>> non-tourism sectors that do not have the resources to
>> market and conduct electronic commerce through the
>> internet. It is intended that African entities will hold
>> the majority of shares in the venture.
>> The NEPAD e-Africa Commission has already signed a
>> Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Commonwealth
>> Business Council (CBC) to support the design, development
>> and roll-out of the gateway. The cost of deploying this
>> payment gateway is about US$100 million and is estimated to
>> be more economical than if each country were to design and
>> implement its own gateway.
>> The executive committee also resolved to convene an
>> e-Africa Commission meeting in August, 2008. The commission
>> consists of Ministers responsible for ICT, AU Commissioners
>> for Infrastructure and Energy, and Human Resources, Science
>> and Technology, the CEO of the NEPAD Secretariat and the
>> Executive Deputy Chairperson of the NEPAD e-Africa
>> Commission. It will be chaired by the Minister in charge of
>> ICT in the country chairing the NEPAD Heads of State and
>> Government Implementation Committee (HSGIC).
>> For more information, contact:
>> Samuel Mikenga
>> Communications Manager
>> NEPAD e-Africa Commission
>> Email: SMikenga at eafricacommission.org
>> Email: SamuelM at nepad.org
>> Email: s.mikenga at paris.com
>> Tel: +27 12 841 4523 (office)
>> Cell: +27 725 296 769
>> Fax: +27 12 841 4094
>> Website:
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