Wednesday, December 5, 2007

SMS Price market - Zambian farmer's market


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


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.