Crowdpesa PMLIVE Interview

Liz Ntonjira NTV PMLIVE Interviews Crowdpesa Founder Patrick Maina on his Mobile Money Mapping platform.

Crowdpesa is a mobile money mapping system that enables its users to find the nearest M-PESA agent, ATM or Bank branches.

Crowdpesa provides users with the convenience of locating financial and mobile money distribution points so as to allow for faster and more efficient transactions such as sending, saving and receiving money. The system uses a Geographic Information System (GIS) to locate their users on a map. It then proceeds to give them a list of financial distribution points closest from where they are. The user also receives a calculated distance from the service and the shortest possible route to the service.

Through its crowdsourcing model users can add new distribution points, take photos of distribution points and provide ratings and comments for the same. The system also provides crowd data analysis and periodical reports on findings on the crowdpesa platform. The crowdsourcing element and mapping aspect is supported by the Ushahidi platform.

Crowdpesa is available as a downloadable mobile application and also on the web platform www.crowdpesa.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mpesa
• Patrick Maina
• Crowdpesa
• Pesapay
• NTV PMLIVE
• Ushahidi
• Mobikash
• Safaricom Mpesa
• NTV Kenya
• Mobile Money
• Crowd Funding