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CrowdPesa: Mapping Mobile Money

Have you ever been somewhere stuck and frustrated because you had no money or perhaps you lost your wallet? I know I have…Well the 12th of December will be your lucky day as CrowdPesa currently on Beta will be launching it mobile service. According to this blog post on Mckinsey [ http://mckinseyonsociety.com/innovate-videos/crowdpesa-mapping-mobile-money/] Vote for Chris there by liking the post.

CrowdPesa is a mobile application that allows you to locate the nearest mobile money distribution point be it Mpesa, ATMS or even Bank Branches. This is because the growth and use of mobile money solution has brought innovations and revolutionized the way people approach mobile money ecosystem, mobile banking but also m-commerce. Today the impact of mobile money solutions like M-Pesa in Kenya has given Africa a new and positive future. CrowdPesa is a Web and Mobile application with a mapping system that allows businesses to locate themselves in a map and facilitate users to find the location of the nearest financial service on their mobile phone. Our goal is to map financial services around the world to allow our users to do their transactions easily and to not only save time but also to rely on our service. We aim to propel our services to a global perspective through partnership with different network operators such as Safaricom in Kenya, Samsung, Western Union, Moneygram, as well as various banks, financial and research institutions. Let’€™s join our hands and spread mobile money around the World for a Connected Future. Welcome to CrowdPesa.com

In this video Christian Kakoba @kryskaka the Manager and Co-Founder of CrowdPesa explains how the service works and explains how it will help you in those sticky and broke situations.

Well over to you Chris….

iKatiba a Crowd Sourced Mobile App

Its been quite a while since i have written anything on Whive, but we have been busy working on a slew of applications all scheduled to be released on Alpha by the end of the year .

Our first and perhaps most important App is the iKatiba Mobile Application which we released on beta about 2 months ago. We currently have almost 800 users who have registered for it. We are currently Crowd Sourcing its multi-lingual development and adding a few more features including Payments Gateway before we release it on Alpha later this year. iKatiba/Whive.mobi has also had a lot of local and international press for its use in civic education for the just concluded Referendum in Kenya. We will have a report on this soon.

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Our second application is our SMS Facebook Application facebook.whive.com which we have been beta testing in the first 2 weeks of August, we say many thanks to the 193 Users who have helped us iron out the bugs. We are currently looking for sponsors to sponsor(click here) the application ahead of its showcase at Maker Faire Africa 2010.

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Our third application has been in the brewing from 2008 when we acquired PostKenya.com complete with its 3300 users. In this regard we have also had to upgrade our servers to ensure we deliver an effective lite email service that will also be available on iKatiba and Whive.mobi. We are currently Beta testing the service at http://WhiveMAIL.com.

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Find Love Here

NiHuyu.com is the fourth Web App that we are about to fully release. This will eventually be a paid service that allows our members to source from the crowd suitable friends and that special mate. This product has actually been one of our oldest products as those who have been with us from the start will remember that Whive was at one time a Valentines gift service.

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PesaPay Payment Gateway Download

Our last Application is our Stand Alone payment gateway PesaPay which we will be fully crowd sourced and FREE to Download. We intend to give our platform away for free so that Kenyan Developers and SME’s can support epayments as well as mpayments without going through any third party. Whive will also be providing Market Data from our Whiver.com API to PesaPay users to enable them make sense of Kenyan markets.

The Whive Cloud is now averaging 1.2 million hits a month with a 20% increase in traffic each month. We would like to thank our team, members, fans and sponsors who are responsible for this modest progress.

Special thanks to incubators such as the *iHub_, Tandaa and naiLab who have so far provided an excellent forum for our and other ideas to Crowd analyzed and tested. We have also opened our Micro Data Center dubbed ^bHive¬

Join me John Karanja at the Maendeleo Speaker Series at Nairobi Baptist on 25th August 2010 where i will be giving a speech on Social Media for Business.

Join the Whive Team at Maker Faire on 27th/28th at Nairobi University.

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Christian Kakoba says CrowdPesa helps you find those M-Pesa Agents and ATM’s