[governance] Web payments

[Carlos Vera Quintana]

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


You do not need read and write to use a phone. So this is not a problem..

Carlos Vera
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El 16/04/2013, a las 17:55, Nnenna <nne75 at yahoo.com> escribió:

> 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
>  
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> 
> 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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