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MOBILE & HOW AFRICA IS LEADING
THE MOBILE PAYMENT CHARGE
OCTOBER 2013 #TNFafrica@MESTghana
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Setting the Stage
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Africa Reaching Parity
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Mobile FirstOnly!
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Mobile to Payments
80%
of AfricansUnbanked
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Mobile Financial Services
Person to Person most common use case
Micro Payments - subscriptions, top ups
Mobile Apps WVAS, replace Premium SMS
mCommerce POS or mobile physical
Credit Scores create history and collateral
Insurance micro powered by mobile money
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Africa Global Leadership
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15 of 20Top Countries
By MobileMoney Usage
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The Case Study
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Setting the Standard
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Meltwater Group
Understand their markets, engage their customers, and master the new so cia l business
environment.
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Our vision is to create wealth and jobs in Africa, bytraining and mentoring young Africans to start world
class software companies.
Meltwater Foundation
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ACCRA - GHANA
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IT EntrepreneurshipTraining
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Seed Investment
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Incubation andMentorship
Each year MEST chooses the top 20-25 Ghanaian university graduates, from an averageapplicant pool of 1,000+ to join its fully-funded two-year IT entrepreneurship trainingprogram.
Software Development
Internet and mobileapplications
Scrum and agiledevelopment
Business & Entrepreneurship
Finance & accounting Strategy & marketing Lean Startup
Methodologies
Invests $30K - $300K in return for a minority stake inthe company and Board representation. To date, hasinvested over in 13 Ghana-based software companies.
Corporate office space and facilities Hands-on assistance and advisory services from
Incubator staff in Ghana and Silicon Valley Access to a global network of Advisors/Mentors
The MEST Program
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Building Betas Early Traction High Growth
Our Portfolio
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Incubator Resources
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220MM Afr icans expected to jo in the labor force in th e next 7 years.
mPawa is a mobile job employment platform(matching application) that leverages the power ofWeb SMS to deliver instant job notifications tojob seekers.
mPawa bridges that gap by allowing the use ofSMS to create standardized profiles for blue collarworkers.
mPawa tracks workers' history over time andgathers references and recommendations for themover time.
Employers can easily scan through this informationor be notified of a match to select qualifiedcandidates.
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Tonights Panelists
Arjuna CostaInvestment Partner, Omidyar Network@ArjunaCosta @OmidyarNetwork
Maxwell DonkorCo-Founder and CEO of mPawa
@maxidon @mpawa_africa
Gwen FloydFounder of Soko @Shop_Soko
Joshua SternCEO of Telerivet @Telerivet
Moderated by Rebecca Grant, Writer, VentureBeat @bekahgrant
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