E-commerce Africa

New sms gateway

2008-07-03T23:25:00.000-07:00

The new sms gateway by Web centrix enables website owners to receive and send sms messages to and from their customers as a business sales channel. Many business owners are not office bound, and do not check their emails regularly. If you are such a user, then this is for you.

The feature allows you to receive sales enquiries directly to your mobile phone. The sms will includes the first 160 or so characters of the enquiry, so that you can quickly determine whether the enquiry needs urgent follow up, or whether it can wait until you are in the office again.

For more information visit the website.

SADC commodity market

2008-01-27T03:47:00.000-08:00

Webcentrix Africa have started development on an mobile and web based commodity advisory network for SADC based rural farmers. Starting in Zimbabwe, the project will take the model of the West Africa based project tradenet, and try to foster an environment where rural farmers can maximum returns on their produce. The project will eventually model a full fledged commodity trade market trading in futures and facilitating regional agricultural trade.

Webcentrix Africa

2008-01-09T22:50:00.000-08:00

Web centrix - Africa

Knowledgebase and Venture fund for Innovative web intelligence solutions that will enable African communities to leverage on Internet, mobile and wireless technologies for business and social development.

Web centrix is a communications technology develop firm focused on technologies that facilitate economic, social and community development. Web centrix is also a technology investment fund. We’re looking to invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs who have the ability to build great teams and great organisations.

http://webcentrix.awardspace.com

SMS Price market - Zambian farmer's market

2007-12-05T07:52:00.000-08:00

To promote fair prices and better living standards for Zambian communal farmers, The Zambian National Farmers Union have launched an sms and web platform for farmers to get better prices to market and sell their products at competitive prices.

This is the price information website for agricultural commodities of the Zambia National Farmers Union.

The ZNFU is collecting prices for the commodities on a weekly basis. The livestock commodities offered are: beef, goats, pigs and sheep. The crop commodities offered are: beans, cassava, ground nuts, honey, maize, rice, sorghum, soybeans, sunflower and wheat. These prices can be accessed using SMS or can be found on this website.

Voip on the go

2007-12-05T07:43:00.000-08:00

Started by 3 cape town university graduates, this innovative voip solution from South Africa will revolutionize communications in South Africa. The great thing is that we are beginning to see more Afro-centric innovations coming from the young minds of Africa.

Yeigo is a free and innovative application for your mobile phone, which uses your phones Internet connection, (don't worry, your phone has one) to offer you free calls, Instant Messaging and cut-price text messages.

Yeigo allows you to talk whenever you want, wherever you are for as long as you want: because calls to other people using Yeigo are free, and you'll save up to 80% on calls to those who don't have Yeigo.

You can even Instant Message other Yeigo users for free, as well as users of GoogleTalk, MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ and Jabber - right from your mobile phone. You can also send Text messages to anyone in the world - for up to 90% less.

Zimbabwe web commerce

2007-10-25T08:30:00.000-07:00

With the further demise of conventional shopping services, Zimbabwean Entrepreneurs in the diaspora are increasing their spread in terms of starting up ecommerce sites to enable sending groceries home. Some of the sites of interest are:

https://www.zimbuyer.com/
http://www.zimsupplies.com
http://www.zimland.com/
http://www.mukuru.com/
http://www.kutenga.com/
http://www.zimbabweshop.com
http://www.zimbabwegroceries.com/

It is sad to note however, that there is still very little activity in relation to local ecommerce services enabling online trading. With many of the banks now offering internet banking services, one hopes the trend will shift to more local projects on the ecommerce space.

eShopAfrica.com

2007-09-15T00:42:00.000-07:00

eShopAfrica.com is a fair trade ecommerce website based in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. Currently many traditional African artisans are living in poverty despite their incredible skills. It is our aim to raise global orders through the Internet for these artisans.
We are supplied by an ever growing community of artisans - many are from Ghana where we are based but we also source products from other African countries including Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Mali - and we are being joined by new artisans all the time. All our products meet our rigourous quality guidelines and we pay our artisans fair or (or more than fair) prices.

Etranzact Zimbabwe

2007-09-15T00:31:00.000-07:00

eTranzact is the first online real-time payment system that allows individuals and corporate account holders to pay for goods and services purchased from merchants without stress. The transaction system allows for payment and funds transfer using mobile, internet and email systems to facilitate funds transfer. In Zimbabwe, the systems is available via Kingdom bank allowing users 24 hr banking services. The system is gaining momentum amongst merchants and utility providers. Even though at present the system is mainly used to airtime purchases via the Econet wireless provider, it is ushering a new age of ecommerce in Zimbabwe at it opens possibilities for true real time internet purchases.