Sunday, May 29, 2016

To buy a cow by clicking buttons without a bank account

U.S. has the Silicon Valley while Kenya has the "Silicon Savannah". It takes years for Taiwan to adopt the 3rd-party payment. In Kenya, most of the 23-million people don't have bank accounts but 90% of them use basic cell phones to pay bills for any thing. It ranges from paying taxi drivers to roadside peddlers, or even buying a cow simply by clicking a few buttons on the cell phones. Reason for this sweeping success and popularity of electronic payment even without a bank account: Kenya government is bold enough to brush off the lobby from the formidable bank industry.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/future-of-money-kenya-m-pesa-60-minutes-2/

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