[governance] Web payments

[Nnenna]

I live in the French-speaking part of Africa where CFA (XOF) is the currency. This region covers 15+ countries, yet no mobile operator can run "Mobile money" outside of its own network and clients. 


You cannot use OrangeMoney with MTN client. The fiscal law in  the CFA  zone is not something any IT Startup wants to delve into. 



And just by the way, you need to be able to read and write to do any kind of payment  - bank, web, mobile..

Just saying

N

 



________________________________
 From: Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca>
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> 
Cc: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>; Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [governance] Web payments
 

McT, paying electronically without a bank, credit card or similar 
account is impossible, unless billing is done against a postpaid cell 
phone account. As Lavoisier suggested, money, like energy, is not 
created out of the blue (except by govs :)). This "enormous success" 
might be referring to a minority of people.

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 04/16/2013 05:10 PM, McTim wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>> question - how many of the 2.5 billion people who can't afford bank accounts
>> can afford mobile phones and internet access?
>
>
> lots...many if not most perhaps.
>
> mobile money is an enormous success in Africa.  All done via cheap mobiles.
>


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