Thus Spaketh Idd Salim

A very secure and workable solution for Google Checkout and Mpesa/Zap

by Idd Salim on Sep.18, 2009, under Coding, Google and Africa

Well, we all know that Mpesa is

One Gateway to rule them all

One Gateway to rule them all

widely used in Kenya, Tanzania and Afghanistan. Zap is available to the 22+ Zain One-Network Countries.

We also know that Paypal hates Africa.

Lastly, We know that Symbiotic Media Consortium has developed a working Payment Gateway that already links PayPal, Mpesa and Zap. Needless to say, there was no help or support at all from Safaricom, because safaricom knows as much about Mpesa as Wangechi.

So this presents a very clear advantage for players like Google to come into the Africa playing field. Africa has millions of people who have NO WAY doing e-commerce, unless they have credit-cards and can cheat Paypal to not be seen as originating from Africa, the Dark Continent full of thieves.

Using The Symbiotic Payment Platform, Google can rule the African Market and Leverage the un-tapped m/e-commerce. We know Google Loves Africa. She has Offices in Kenya.

This being a man-eat-man society where people just sleep and wait for others to think then steal the ideas, I will share no more, but will email it as a PDF to Google, detailing each and every step, hoping they will adopt it. They will. I know.

-Salim, Idd

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  • ndebej
    I love this. Let me know how to use this system
  • iddsalim
    Still waiting for that day when innovations from Africa will be listened to...
  • Thanks Mendi.

    The actual question is :

    "Is google willing and bold enough to partner with a Kenyan solutions provider [sme level], to actualize this concept."

    This concept is UNWORKABLE in US and the rest, but in Kenya, a reality. Our gateway is now being used to process payments for online betting, e-ticketing for Bus seats etc.

    It is a very exciting time here for us and you would not believe the challenges and solutions we are being dared to do.

    To dare is to do.
  • Mendi
    Hear, hear! I am so frustrated that I cannot use *my* credit cards and *my* paypal account when I am out of the US. I can use wakina TOR to change my ISP, but that's just bogus as why should I have to do that? And while Google checkout still works (long live the empire!), not that many vendors (or at least the ones that I tried to buy stuff from) have a merchant account with them. Now if your platform allows me to deposit a certain amount of money into my mPesa account and then pay with mPesa for stuff that I want to buy online, that that is golden as far as I'm concerned. Inawezekana?
    PS.. tweeting this...
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