Uza-Mazao(tm) Is Winner At African Diaspora Marketplace Competition

Uza-Mazao^TM Wins At ADM Competition

The African Diaspora Marketplace Competition was organized by USAID and Western Union. Out of 733 entrants 58 were chosen as finalists and out of these only 14 were chosen as winners and were awarded grants. Uza-Mazao^TM was among the 14 winners.

See:

http://www.diasporamarketplace.org/

http://www.america.gov/africa_connect.html and click on Athi River

http://blogs.america.gov/ip/2009/12/23/a-virtual-marketplace-for-small-farms-in-kenya/

Video of Award Ceremony:

http://www.america.gov/multimedia/video.html?videoId=63241142001

More about ADM event

Report by Embassy Of The United States, Belgium: US Policy Article

Information in French on ADM event

Information in Arabic on ADM event

On Uza-Mazao:

http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=42338_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

Uza-Mazao(tm): The Marketplace in a Mobile Phone

Uza-Mazao^TM

Uza-Mazao^TM is quickly becoming Africa's biggest, best-deal, 24/7 market in a mobile phone. It creates a marketplace via Short Message System – SMS text messaging to bring unprecedented levels of efficiency to buyers and sellers of crops, farm produce, livestock and livestock products. It gives sellers the ability to find willing buyers and vise-versa. It aggregates buyers and sellers and applies a powerful algorithm to find the best match. It is highly reliable and uses an existing mobile-phone wallet system to complete a sale.

Uza-Mazao^TM Expansion

We aim to expand Uza-Mazao^TM services from the East African Common Market Countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi to cover the entire African Continent and Arabia. The implication is that your market area as a buyer or seller of agricultural products, crops, farm produce, livestock or livestock products will expand accordingly providing you with unprecedented levels of efficiency.

Uza-Mazao^TM Enhances Your Business

As Buyer or Seller or Transportation Services Provider, your business model is enhanced. Uza-Mazao^TM uses SMS text messaging to register transportation providers, farmers, and buyers of crops, fruits, farm produce, livestock and livestock products. E&M Capital Tek's proprietary algorithm determines the best match of seller(s)-to-buyer and informs by SMS text messaging both the farmer and the buyer as well as the transportation provider. By aggregating small farmers each with a small quantity of a similar product to sell, virtual cooperatives are formed according to geographic location thus encouraging the buyer to travel to the village to purchase a now acceptable amount of the product. The product is bought and sold using an existing mobile-wallet system run by a mobile telecommunications provider.