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e-Post Africa Project Potential for accelerating financial inclusion in Africa.

PAPU Conference on Development of Postal Financial Services in Africa 7-9 February 2011 Ouagadougou-B/Faso. e-Post Africa Project Potential for accelerating financial inclusion in Africa. By Dr. Jones A. Killimbe Director General/CEO RASCOM. INTRODUCTION.

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e-Post Africa Project Potential for accelerating financial inclusion in Africa.

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  1. PAPU Conference on Development of Postal Financial Services in Africa 7-9 February 2011 Ouagadougou-B/Faso e-Post Africa Project Potential for accelerating financial inclusion in Africa. By Dr. Jones A. Killimbe Director General/CEO RASCOM

  2. INTRODUCTION • Challenges • Challenges facing the African Postal Services in the 21st Century • These challenges are already known • What is the Response? • Business as usualand collapse OR • Come up with innovative solutions in order to survive • Survival means being able to finance your operations

  3. INTRODUCTION (Cont’d) • Opportunities • Adapting ICT based solutions to support revenue incremental growth. • My focus: • E-Post project

  4. Emerging ICTs and Access in Africa • There is tremendous potential for ICT-driven social and economic development throughout Africa; • It is now a known fact the emergency of ICT in Africa which has improved access and penetration, has created favourable enviroment for the African population to appreciate the introduction of ICT based postal solutions. • Building on this POTENTIAL, African Postal services can create new revenue opportunities • List of E-Post services which will benefit from availability of e-applications and hence enhance financial inclusion in Africa are already known.

  5. The e-Post and the RASCOM satellite Solution • Connecting District Post Offices (DPOs) to Main Post Offices (MPO) – Initial Phase • RascomStar-QAF our commercial company will donate 15 terminals to carry out in collaboration with AUC,ITU, ATU PATU and UPU a pilot exercise related to e-Post services.

  6. RASCOM’s keen interests in e-POST innitiative – RASCOM satellite solution • This is a continental initiative in collaboration with AUC, PAPU, ATU, UPU and ITU. • The RASCOM satellite can provide a continental platform for a total coverage of all African countries. • It facilitates the sharing of infrastructure throughout the co ntinent due to its coverage. • Satellites are predictable: 99.99999% reliable allowing constant, uniform and ubiquitous quality of services to all locations regardless of the geography/terrain • EXAMPLE –THE Pan African e-Network

  7. INDIA AFRICA 2 1 3 RASCOM 4 UNI-3 UNI-2 UNIVERSITY-1 UNI-4 5 Data Center at Delhi UNI-5 6 UNI-6 5 Super Specialty Hospitals Leased Link 7 HUB Station UNI-7 MPLS IPLC 5 Regional University Centers 1 Landing Station, India SSH-1 Landing Station, Africa ( DAKAR, SENEGAL ) 12 SSH-2 53 Learning Centers SSH-12 2 11 SSH-11 SSH-7 53 Patient-Ends SSH-3 3 10 SSH-6 SSH-8 SSH-10 SSH-5 53 VVIP Nodes SSH-4 4 5 6 7 8 9 SSH-9 ARCHITECTURE OF PAN-AFRICAN e-NETWORK

  8. THANK YOU Our Web: www.rascom.org

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