Valuable Bits

Last week we had the privilege to meet up with Cameron Goldie-Scot from Triple Jump and one interesting thing that he mentioned was about Zap’s business model to attract agents. The agent network is an important part of the mobile banking services that’s provided in Tanzania and elsewhere. These services are rolled out as ‘branchless [...]

Mobile banking is the kind of topic that attracts people from different disciplines and backgrounds. We come from a technical university, from the HCI department at KTH with a user centric approach when developing services and applications.
Because of the financial and economic nature of this field we contacted the Stockholm School of Economics and got [...]

Today we enrolled and tried a third type of mobile banking offered here in Tanzania by MNOs. It’s called ZPesa and is offered by the MNO Zantel. An interesting note was that while Vodacom is careful with labeling their service with mobile banking after the audit by Kenya’s financial department, Zantel is actively promoting this [...]

Yesterday we finished with the enrollment of Vodacom’s M-Pesa and Zain’s Zap. Both are services for sending money from one mobile phone to another. M-Pesa is the most famous one with a great success story from Kenya. In Tanzania though, it hasn’t achieved the same impact during the year it has been available. Zap is [...]

The impressions of the city so far has been many. The presence of mobile operators in commercial spaces is huge. You can make no mistake in telling that this is a fast growing market where the operators try to stay as visible as possible to attract the enrolling customers and it’s only real competitor for [...]

We are proud to officially conduct our master’s thesis not only at KTH but also in collaboration with Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology. Thank you Amos!
We are also happy to announce that Jonathan Donner from Microsoft Research will be available as a resource during our project and that MSR will act as client for [...]