TEDxVienna - Alexander Oswald - Why Kenyans do it better

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Alexander Oswald is a Senior Marketing Manager with 13 years Management experience in telecommunication and consumer electronics industry. He has worked for global brands in fast changing business environments, whilst having a focus on Central & South East Europe. At the present time he is Head of Marketing at Nokia, covering several countries, including Switzerland, Cyprus, Israel and of course Austria. Adding to his durable career path, Alexander is also co-author of the first handbook for mobile marketing and mobile campaigns in German language, "Mobile Marketing"

About TEDx

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• TedxVienna
• TED
• Alexander Oswald
• mobile payment
• M-Pesa
• Kenya
• english
• Austria
• Technology
• Social Change
• funfairfilms
• 2011

[MrAlexOswald]

Thank you so much for almost 26k views and 490 likes. All that after just 1 week. It is the 4th best rated video of all those 10.000+ videos on the TEDxTalks channel. I am so happy about the many comments and all the ppositive feedback on my talk.

[roadshows2010]

Kenya is a very rich country. We have so much that we take for granted but are actually the things that make us unique and make us who we are - Kenyans :-) So, Alexander, do come back for another visit and i assure you you'll discover many more hidden treasures :-) I'll forever remain Proudly Kenyan.

[TheNjish]

That bit about getting the performance of one's child in school is off the mark.We'v nt got there as yet,but national exams results can be accessed via sms.

Other things that is being done using the mobile phone is car trackingand immobilising,fleet monitoring,security systems.One can also access bank account details including alerts when withdrawals are done.

[Nyabsino]

NO BRITISH GUY ITS WAS AN IDEA BY MID YEAR UNIVERSITY STUDENT IF AM NOT WRONG....AFRICAN KENYAN...AND HE WAS PAID LITTLE AMOUNT ON THIS MULTI BILLION IDEA BY SAFARICOM.

[Nyabsino]

@wakilingugi THAT IS VERY TRUE...GREED IS KILLING KENYANS AND THEY LIKE IT THAT WAY...ITS VERY SAD.

[Nyabsino]

AFTER ALL THEY WILL NEVER GIVE KENYANS CREDIT AFTER THEY IMPLEMENT OUR IDEAS IN THERE COUNTRIES......WE ALL KNOW THAT.......THEY WILL SAY IT IS THERE NEW INVENTION SOMETHING WHICH WAS INVENTED BY A MID YEAR UNIVERSITY STUDENT...THAT MEANS THAT WE KENYANS ARE GREAT THINKER IN TERMS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS LIKE IT OR NOT..THERE ARE A LOT TO BE SEEN OUT HERE...

[karuitha]

@siasabora have you seen this? I just bumped into it and funny enough when I was watching the BBC breakfast news this morning(17th feb) and on the business news, they were talking about this ground breaking pioneering innovation that is being introduced in the UK market soon. Only the so called ground breaking innovation is our very own mobile cash transaction or the Kenyan version of M-pesa. When they talked in depth about it, they singled out Kenya as the country where it all started.