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Organizations all over Africa have used our technology to collect and disseminate different types of information on people and markets via smart phone, tablet, web, SMS and voice SMS.
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Esoko (www.esoko.com) is a pioneering technology company powering Africa’s digital revolution. The company does this through the development of simple but powerful mobile and web-based tools and services that empower Organizations seeking to provide critical services to the last mile. Our mission has been to improve the revenues of Africa’s rural people and we hope to drive economic empowerment for Africa’s rural folks through digital and financial inclusion. Esoko’s product offerings include: Insyt Insyt provides a mobile and web-based platform for data collection, paper form digitization, agent management and data analysis - helping agencies convert from paper, thus reducing cost, time and errors in targeting customers or gaining visibility and insights into its operations. Using a simple mobile device, organizations can: Digitize all paper forms and customize its own work flows and then migrate into the digital space Capture any type of data from the field including socio-economic data, registration of people or assets, household data, farm level data, images, signatures, fingerprints and GIS Track inventory monitor last mile distribution and manage field level transactions and sales from multiple locations in real time Map land areas into GIS polygons or point maps without a separate GPS receiver Collect data in both online and offline mode The web management portal features real-time data monitoring and insights through analytics. Insyt has been the back-bone technology of many government-led agricultural and social protection programs including the Ghana National Household Registry, Planting for Food and Job’s Program and the flagship social protection program called the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty initiative in Ghana – helping government agencies profile over 3.7 million individuals, map 104,000 acres of land and capture 695,000 biometric profiles for improved targeting. For medium – large scale survey exercises Esoko offers field agent recruitment, training and deployment and customized workflows including payment and verifications services. Learn more and sign-up on Insyt via insyt.esoko.com
The Digital Farmer Service (DFS) Esoko Digital Farmer Service is an innovative agricultural value chain digitization service that leverages mobile and web technologies to develop a super-agent network across vulnerable farming communities. The agents equipped with tablets running Esoko technologies are the conduits for providing critical services to thousands of smallholders. These critical services include credit to finance agricultural operations, insurance to increase farmer resilience to emerging threats and economic stressors, input subsidy programs and access to input and output markets. The service creates an ecosystem around the agents comprising of key value chain actors such as input providers, mechanization service providers, financial institutions (+ insurance companies) and grain off-takers. All transactions within the agricultural value chain are recorded and digitized using smart cards enable by Esoko mobile money wallet and Visa, the global payment provider, helping the farmer build a history of transactions which could be used by third parties such as financial institutions to assess and provide credit/loans to these farmers. The system also enables biometric verifications for interventions such as subsidy programs within the agricultural industry and making cash payments to the last mile. Information Services Esoko provides a simple but powerful communication tool for businesses, projects, NGOs and governments to connect with farmers. The company offers a cloud hosted web platform that allows any project or organization to customize their networks and areas of interest, profile recipients, then send information to them at a low cost via SMS, voice SMS and a call centre. Esoko’s original content and e-extension offering includes: Market prices covering over 52 agricultural commodities Climate smart agricultural technologies and seasonal forecast delivered over SMS, Voice SMS, IVR and call centre. Bids & Offers, linking buyers to sellers Good Agronomic Practices Call Centre staffed with agric experts speaking local languages Organizations may also send their own content - promotions, reminders, announcements etc via the platform Over 1 million farmers have received 30 million SMS over the Esoko platform, with 220,000 calls coming in through the call centre.
Knowledge Plus App (K+) K+ is a digital extension and training app allowing users to create any kind of content on web and publish it to mobile devices for offline access in hard to reach areas. K+ is a direct response to the problem of low extension worker to farmer ratios in Africa. Knowledge plus features include: Web portal to create and publish content including text, video, photo and quizzes Mobile-based app, where published content is accessible offline after initial syncing Report and feedback functions The K+ app is being used by the Farm Africa led Sesame project in Tanzania to provide rural communities with better agronomy practices. Organization all over the world have used our technology to collect and disseminate different types of information on people and markets via smart phone, tablet, web, SMS and voice SMS. Esoko’s geographical footprint spans across Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria and South Africa. The company is headquartered in Accra, Ghana. For more information: visit www.esoko.com email info@esoko.com call +233 302 211 611