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MOBILE & HOW AFRICA IS LEADING

THE MOBILE PAYMENT CHARGE

OCTOBER 2013 #TNFafrica@MESTghana

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Setting the Stage

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Africa Reaching Parity

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Mobile FirstOnly!

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Mobile to Payments

80%

of AfricansUnbanked

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Mobile Financial Services

Person to Person most common use case

Micro Payments - subscriptions, top ups

Mobile Apps WVAS, replace Premium SMS

mCommerce POS or mobile physical

Credit Scores create history and collateral

Insurance micro powered by mobile money

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Africa Global Leadership

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15 of 20Top Countries

By MobileMoney Usage

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The Case Study

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Setting the Standard

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Meltwater Group

Understand their markets, engage their customers, and master the new so cia l business

environment.

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Our vision is to create wealth and jobs in Africa, bytraining and mentoring young Africans to start world

class software companies.

Meltwater Foundation

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ACCRA - GHANA

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IT EntrepreneurshipTraining

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Seed Investment

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Incubation andMentorship

Each year MEST chooses the top 20-25 Ghanaian university graduates, from an averageapplicant pool of 1,000+ to join its fully-funded two-year IT entrepreneurship trainingprogram.

Software Development

Internet and mobileapplications

Scrum and agiledevelopment

Business & Entrepreneurship

Finance & accounting Strategy & marketing Lean Startup

Methodologies

Invests $30K - $300K in return for a minority stake inthe company and Board representation. To date, hasinvested over in 13 Ghana-based software companies.

Corporate office space and facilities Hands-on assistance and advisory services from

Incubator staff in Ghana and Silicon Valley Access to a global network of Advisors/Mentors

The MEST Program

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Building Betas Early Traction High Growth

Our Portfolio

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Incubator Resources

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220MM Afr icans expected to jo in the labor force in th e next 7 years.

mPawa is a mobile job employment platform(matching application) that leverages the power ofWeb SMS to deliver instant job notifications tojob seekers.

mPawa bridges that gap by allowing the use ofSMS to create standardized profiles for blue collarworkers.

mPawa tracks workers' history over time andgathers references and recommendations for themover time.

Employers can easily scan through this informationor be notified of a match to select qualifiedcandidates.

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Tonights Panelists

Arjuna CostaInvestment Partner, Omidyar Network@ArjunaCosta @OmidyarNetwork

Maxwell DonkorCo-Founder and CEO of mPawa

@maxidon @mpawa_africa

Gwen FloydFounder of Soko @Shop_Soko

Joshua SternCEO of Telerivet @Telerivet

Moderated by Rebecca Grant, Writer, VentureBeat @bekahgrant

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