[kictanet] An MPesa moment

[robert yawe]

Hi All,

Hope you all had a nation building weekend, just came a cross and interesting issue that is developing in the USA

"Obama's latest proposal is a $2.4 billion program to provide cell phones for the poor.Entitlement Mentality Destroying America"


Carrying our a simple calculation that fund can equip 25.5 million (8.5% of the population) poor Americans with an android/windows smartphone. I doubt if the objective is to have them become more active on Facebook or Twitter but as a tether. 

From where I stand, the US government must have seen the benefits of using the mobile platform as learnt from the story of Kenya to meet social programme objectives such as healthcare (m-bima), market information (m-mukulima) and banking the unbanked (m-pesa, m-kesho).

On the mobile front we have become inventors more the rest of the world more like Phillips was with the VCR, we hatch and prove new concepts then move on to other areas without innovating.  

Regards
 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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