There are several options to make payments via mobile phone and we have helped quite a few companies here in india to realise the same.
More importantly you may have to be ii Thanks & Regards, Mitul Limbani, Founder & CEO, Enterux Solutions Pvt. Ltd., The Enterprise Linux Company (r), http://www.enterux.com http://www.entVoice.com On 02-May-2010, at 17:02, "Mark Scholten" <m...@streamservice.nl> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: asterisk-biz-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz- >> boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of christian >> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 12:07 PM >> To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com >> Cc: gid...@lukmefcameroon.org >> Subject: [asterisk-biz] Mobile money for the rural communities in >> Cameroon >> >> I am the CEO and co-founder of the charity organisation in Cameroon. >> We are >> currently working on a project aimed at improving on remittance >> towards >> the >> rural communities in Cameroon. >> >> I ideal is to have every mobile phone to become a small mobile cash >> account >> with which persons can use to pay bills, transfer funds from one >> account to >> the other, convert their electronic cash to physical cash wherever >> and >> whenever the need it. >> >> First we will not want a solution that is too internet based as 98% >> of >> Cameroonians do not have access to the internet. Interestedly >> about 6 >> million Cameroonians have cell phones. Most rural poor also have >> phones >> supported by their children living in the urban cities. Our idea is >> simply; >> is there away that these persons in urban centres can send small >> amounts of >> cash to relatives in the rural areas? We should have a way of >> controlling >> the transactions, monitor and provide support. >> >> While we see this as a charitable project, we also wish to assure >> everyone >> that there can be a lot of money (profit) to be made. >> >> We are seeking technical advice and partners to develop this further >> >> Christian >> Tel 237 33332304/ 77947449 >> www.lukmefcameroon.org >> > > Depending on your requirements you could make it SMS or voice based. > However > to actually receive the money by the persons that are receiving it > they > would need a point to claim it (a bank account or a shop where > someone pays > the money and lower the money in their account when there is a > payout could > work). Something similar is done in India if I'm correct. > > I don't remember the name of the company that did it in India, but > you could > look for them. I would be happy to ask here internally if we would > be happy > (and under what conditions) to make it SMS and/or voice based. > >> -- >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-biz mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz