Consensus building is the starting point of most societal projects, and once consensus is found the technology becomes an implementation detail. It doesn't work the other way around.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:38 AM, ashok _ <listmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > One important factor was - the mobile provider who promoted m-pesa was > partially owned by the government - and a significant chunk of the > company was (and is ) owned by a clique of political power brokers > within the country. All this meant they could setup and grow this > service outside of the purview of banking and similar regulations > (which would have prevented the rapid growth of the service) - in fact > when the banks got together to demand stricter regulation of the > sector they didnt really succeed since the political interests > involved in the mobile provider were much stronger. You can look at > the other mobile providers in the country who also have similar > services and started at much the same time (but without the same > political backing ) and you of course havent heard anything about them > ... because they havent succeeded.
