[asterisk-biz] Mobile money for the rural communities in Cameroon

[christian]

Hi Mark

Thank you for your feedback.  Please kindly let me know as soon as you have
the information from your team what it will take for us to get this system
working.  Yes we have a plan for the payout points as well as the payin (
real cash to electronic credit)

What we need to figure out is the needed hardware, the software, some
connectivity and then the security.

Please if you have skype, let us talk at anytime you are free

My skype is christian24035

Christian

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Scholten [mailto:mark at streamservice.nl] 
Sent: 02 May 2010 12:32
To: christian at lukmefcameroon.org; 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
Discussion'
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Mobile money for the rural communities in
Cameroon



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> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 12:07 PM
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> Subject: [asterisk-biz] Mobile money for the rural communities in
> Cameroon
> 
> I am the CEO and co-founder of the charity organisation in Cameroon.
> We are
> currently working on a project aimed at improving on remittance towards
> the
> rural communities in Cameroon.
> 
> I ideal is to have every mobile phone to become a small mobile cash
> account
> with which persons can use to pay bills, transfer funds from one
> account to
> the other, convert their electronic cash to physical cash wherever and
> whenever the need it.
> 
> First we will not want a solution that is too internet based as 98% of
> Cameroonians do not have access to the internet.  Interestedly about 6
> million Cameroonians have cell phones.  Most rural poor also have
> phones
> supported by their children living in the urban cities.  Our idea is
> simply;
> is there away that these persons in urban centres can send small
> amounts of
> cash to relatives in the rural areas?  We should have a way of
> controlling
> the transactions, monitor and provide support.
> 
> While we see this as a charitable project, we also wish to assure
> everyone
> that there can be a lot of money (profit) to be made.
> 
> We are seeking technical advice and partners to develop this further
> 
> Christian
> Tel 237 33332304/ 77947449
> www.lukmefcameroon.org
> 

Depending on your requirements you could make it SMS or voice based. However
to actually receive the money by the persons that are receiving it they
would need a point to claim it (a bank account or a shop where someone pays
the money and lower the money in their account when there is a payout could
work). Something similar is done in India if I'm correct.

I don't remember the name of the company that did it in India, but you could
look for them. I would be happy to ask here internally if we would be happy
(and under what conditions) to make it SMS and/or voice based.

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