The reason it is failing is that the conductors will not be able to make money on the side, since the beba agents are the ones collecting the money. The citi hoppa management should be keen on the beba card. It will help them minimise on the huge losses they incur to the crew handling the money On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, lordmwesh <lordmwesh@gmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
*Near field communication* (*NFC*) is a set of standards for smartphones<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone> and similar devices to establish radio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio> communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more than a few centimetres. Present and anticipated applications include contactless transactions, data exchange, and simplified setup of more complex communications such as Wi-Fi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi> . Communication is also possible between an NFC device and an unpowered NFC chip <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit>, called a "tag
On 5 September 2012 11:51, Henry Kamabi <hkamabi@gmail.com> wrote:
hi Brian, NFC...whats the logic...Kindly let me kno..
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Brian L <lusiola@gmail.com> wrote:
@Henry it uses NFC
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Henry Kamabi <hkamabi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, First of all we need to understand Kenyans way of doing things n so understand kenya's ,market. I dont know the technology they were using but i gess it gprs or so..what happens when there is no connection? USSD would have been appropriate or even predownloaded vouchers of different denomination. I talked to one of the guys there n adviced on the same but then he said this was an already predesigned to work the way it works n no room for improvement..Wollah...na hii Kenya yetu. There are a co selling airtel called teleyetu.Its a project that works in an almost same way and fortunately the manufacturer(PSITEK) of the devices heeded to the facts on the ground and improved.Seemslike they are making it.
Henry,
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Was in a Citi Hoppa today where they have scratched out all those "Beba" stickers. The conductor, who was busy asking for change, said "sina agent" when I asked about the Beba Card.
The Beba card is a solution which would have gone very far in helping small matatu owners who have no idea how much was collected in their matatu and where it is.
I also think some Eastlands saccos would have been a better pilot such as Double M (Who I hear have quite a number of cases of conductors taking off with the days earnings) and maybe others like Embassava, which appear to be more disciplined than Hoppa.
Hoppa may have been a good pilot to rein in the indiscipline, but the problem here is that the crew ganged up against the card. Plus Citi Hoppa is already a step towards management.
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