Posts by Emmanuel Okoegwale
About: Emmanuel Okoegwale
Website: http://www.mobilemoneyafrica.com
Profile: Emmanuel Okoegwale, a Mobile money specialist and active in the sector across Africa.He is an Executive Director with GSMA Global award winning Mobile money provider, Tagattitude of France,Where He is responsible for West Africa roll outs. The founder of Mobilemoneyafrica.com, Africa's first media resource,dedicated to Mobile commerce.A graduate of Economics and and MSC scholar of Nettel@africa Telecommunications Regulations and policy studies. Currently,the most ranked African on the prestigious ZDNET technology blog where He focuses on Mobile commerce in Africa.He also contributes on Blogs and journals,globally.
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MobileMoney: Between Corporate Mercenaries and Industry Experts
Africa is leading the world in Mobile commerce and payment with active deployments all across the continent. M-PESA is now referred to as the most successful of all with more than 7 million subscribers in Kenya alone. Many look alike deployments are
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Can MobileMoney Accelerate m-govt In Africa?
The basic cornerstone of good governance are quality of service, quick response mechanism and above all, accountable and transparent process mechanism but the existing systems does not reflect any of these in any of its activities across all se
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Mobile Money: What African Banks need to Know (1)
Mobile phones can enable Banks and their existing and new customers to interact remotely in a trusted way through local retail outlets like the super markets, Gas stations, lottery points, post offices and even airtime dealers. Banks lean towards
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Mobile Money and Card Payment: Perception Survey in Nigeria (2009)
Nigeria with 5 Mobile Operators and 7 CDMA operators with total subscription of 62 Million under an addressable market of 140 Million people is the largest market for Mobile telephony in Africa. Despite the successes recorded in the financial se
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Banking the Unbanked African: The Disconnections
Mina, a Ghanaian Lady that I met on my recent trip from Accra, the capital city of Ghana to Aflao, the border town with Republic of Togo, was traveling to conduct withdrawal transactions with her ATM card and nine other cards belonging to friends. Th
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Mobile Money Agent Network Potentials in Nigeria
Nigeria with only 18 million Bank accounts and 62 million Mobile Phone subscribers is posed to be Africa’s biggest market for Mobile Money in coming months. Despite the late start of Mobile Money in Nigeria, the strong compelling needs of the milli
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African Banks vs MNO: Same Road Different Destinations
For Millions of Africans that are still formally excluded from any formal financial services, how and where they get such services is of less importance to them, than getting the service. The Banks are still trying to lure people in through their gat
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