56. ...Received Powerful Endorsements... Slide 8 “KenCall is one of the reasons the Kenyan economy grew over 6% last year.” Thomas Friedman (Author of “The World is Flat”) in the New York Times
93. Almost 25,000 Farmers Registered 12/9/10 Slide 15 Phase 3: Pilot Phase 1 & 2: Set up and Test Phase 4: Launch
94. Almost 37,000 Questions captured 12/9/10 Slide 16 Phase 3: Pilot Phase 1 & 2: Set up and Test Phase 4: Launch
95. Our Farmer’s Profile Achievements: Identified profile of the customer : A male farmer with a household size of less than 5 people. His farm is small – no more than 2 acres. He grows cereals and has livestock on his farm. 55% of farmers with a total cultivated land size of 2ac or less 69% of registered farmers are male Slide 17 12/9/10
102. Quality KPIs. Repeat usage. Percentage of regular users increased from 5,5% to 12,5%. Turn-around time. Percentage of questions answered real-time increased from 53% to 87%. Inbound/outbound calls ration increased from 0,45 to 0,79. Subscribers who asked n number of questions: Slide 21 12/9/10
126. Areas of improvement Focus on increasing size of database to make it more attractive to the “Big Wigs” of agriculture Product Development Introduce a “training” arm to M-Kilimo. Utilize experts to create “training” sessions for farmers on entrepreneurship, farm management, loan management and increasing farm productivity. Test other forms of marketing Television Advertising Banner Advertising Push further on Word of Mouth advertising. 12/9/10 Slide 24
127. Vision: Future Growth Areas Facilitate development of local skills and organizations and links with other programs and institutions 2. Transfer new technologies to farmers and rural people 3. Address problems of diverse groups of rural people, including commercial farmers, women, resource poor farmers, youth, and non-farm populations 4. Address public interest issues in rural areas: resource conservation health and food security monitoring agricultural production monitoring food safety, nutrition and family education Youth development 12/9/10 Slide 25
128. Vision: Other countries have expressed a huge interest 12/9/10 Slide 26 Rwanda Uganda Ghana
Smart cards – millk collection system- card and handheld device that is used during milk collection and information is stored on the card and downloaded and captured in a centralized location – get anything on credit based on your milk volumes and information Is available to the farmer over SMS
Suburban
Introducing financial BPO services in the future
Three main segments within the bpo – people management , client management and infrastructure management. Quality and efficiency quality and performance indicators – with infrastructure – continuous upgrades and introduction to new softwares – such a miki-wiki – talk about later with m-kilimo