<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I agree. No need to re-invent the wheel and develop an M-whatsapp for Kenya. Better to solve the real problem which is payment processing<br><br>Regards, <div>Harry Karanja<div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPad</div></div></div></div><div><br>On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:22 PM, robert yawe <<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hi,<br><br>This is an opportunity for the developers in Kenya, all you need is an application that will accept an mpesa payment and then use either a paypal account or debit/credit card to do the dollar payment.<br><br>Regards<br><br><br><div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br></div><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<br> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mark Mwangi <<a href="mailto:mwangy@gmail.com">mwangy@gmail.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a> <br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Cc:</span></b> Meshack <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 29 November 2012, 11:42<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Whatsapp Application<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1778555282">The problem is that this product was not made for this part of the world. A clone of this localised for easy payment with Mpesa and the same functionality if not better could do wonders. <div><br></div><div>The Vital component in my view is the use of the phone no. as the key, populating the list with your phonebook contacts and not forcing the creation of accounts and filling profiles. </div>
<div class="yiv1778555282gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv1778555282gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:19 AM, meshack emakunat <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:memakunat@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:memakunat@yahoo.com">memakunat@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv1778555282gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit;" valign="top"><div>If only most students would know this then the cost of education may go down in the campuses. Consider how many student hold this card and yet spend 300shillings copying notes from scribd and slideshare or rather printing them yet they can subscribe for 500 or less shillings per month and download as much as they can. All am saying is that it is no good for banks to withhold information from its customers. </div>
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