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South Africa: Local Device for Selling Prepaid Mobile Services

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Français · Afrique du Sud : Un dispositif local de vente de service mobiles prépayés
Español · Sudáfrica: Dispositivo local para vender servicios móviles prepagados

Zafir Khan shows how cloud computing is enabling entrepreneurship in Africa: “Nomanini, a startup based in South Africa, built a device that enables local entrepreneurs like Vuyile to sell prepaid mobile services in their communities. The Lula (which means “easy” in colloquial Zulu), is a portable voucher sales terminal that is used on-the-go by people ranging from taxi drivers to street vendors. It generates and prints codes which people purchase to add minutes to their mobile phones.”

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