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Posts Tagged ‘e-commerce’
eTranzact ready for Ghana
After over 18 months of "testing the waters", it appears eTranzact is finally warming-up for a mega launch in Ghana. They had a pre-launch activity last week tagged "e-village" where some of the technological giants in Ghana showcased their products/services. Aviation Social Centre in Accra was the venue and they also had a similar event in [...]
Is Google Adsense working for Africa?
I joined the Google Adsense as way back as 2004 and have been earning some residual income from that publisher program since then. I currently reside in a West African country and I consider myself qualified to comment on a blog post by Mambe Nanje Churchill, a Cameroonian IT enterpreneur: "Google Adsense is not working in Africa". Mambe [...]
Any prospects for e-commerce in Africa?
This round-up first appeared at Global Voices. The past week turned out to be one that came with an interesting debate about the prospects of e-commerce in Africa. Oluniyi David Ajao started with throwing an insight into the popularity of e-gold (a digital gold currency) in Nigeria. Other online payment systems might indeed follow the same [...]
Is a common African e-commerce platform possible?
This blog post is a direct response to Erik Hersman’s blog post: The problem with e-commerce and online payments in Africa. Erik Hersman, a fellow African blogger, shared his thoughts about the need for an African e-payment system. He starts with a lamentation that is indeed true: A lack of true online payment options is crippling African [...]
African Web Applications & E-commerce
There is no denying the fact that the Western world is far ahead with technology, nonetheless, web technologies. So many web tools/applications are out there that are irrelevant to African countries. Services like Paypal, Ebay, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Free SMS websites, readily comes to mind. It is important therefore that Africans can [...]
Graphcard Offers Online Payment Solutions To Africa
Within a span of just 15 years since its widespread introduction, the Internet has radically changed the face of the world. The number of Internet users on the African continent is currently estimated to number almost 23 million. Globally, the number of Internet users exceeds 1 billion - representing approximately one-sixth of the world's [...]
