Showing posts with label Digicel in Haiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digicel in Haiti. Show all posts

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Digicel in Haiti

Begin quote from page 40 in Time Magazine:
"---As a consequence, only 10% of Haitians have a bank account. But around 80% of Haitian Households have a cell phone. So, the chairman of Digicel, Irish Businessman denis O'brien, worked with a Canadian bank, Scotiabank, to provide a service that lets Haitians withdraw cash and make deposits and person-to-person transfers using their mobile phones without a bank account. By the end of 2011 this service had processed over 6 million transactions.

Similar stories are happening in Africa."
end quote from page 40 to the left of the page from Time Magazine from October 1, 2012.

This is just a hint of how cell phones are changing the lives of almost everyone on earth every day.

In Africa because counterfeit medicines are a very big problem in Sub Saharan Africa so a member of Clinton's CGI created a company called Sproxil so that people can check to see if the medications they have received are counterfeit or not but using cell phones to text a code on any medication to see if it is counterfeit or not.

Though the above information is not a direct quote the information is from the same article I quoted above on page 40.