<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I'm curious. What is hampering interoperability in Kenya? <br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 14 Sep 2016, at 10:05 AM, Mwende Njiraini via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)">Madagascar’s three mobile money providers
– Airtel Money, mVola and Orange Money – will roll out <a href="http://www.pymnts.com/news/international/2016/gsma-madagascar-mobile-money-providers-interoperable/">nationwide
interoperable services</a>, making Madagascar only the second African nation to
do so. <br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)">Meanwhile, Orange Money has <a href="http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/Article/3584068/Orange-gets-African-licences-for-e-money.html#.V9KziVt9670">expanded
operations in Africa</a>, receiving electronic money licenses from Senegal,
Mali, Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea. [<em><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif"">Read
ITU News’ recent article on</span></em> <a href="https://itu4u.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/will-oranges-payjoy-investment-help-overcome-the-connectivity-price-barrier/"><em><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif"">Orange’s investment in PayJoy</span></em></a>.]</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)">Source: ITU News<br></span></p>
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