EVENT OVERVIEW

The 2010 M-PAY Africa will focus on how the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) in Africa can access all range of financial services through the mobile phone. There will be a special demonstration on how M-Payment can become mainstream in capital market stocks trading, micro-insurance services, banking services and government services.
This programme will arm attendees with successful strategies, new ideas, and sufficient data to develop business cases. The inaugural M-PAY Africa in Lagos, Nigeria in 2009 demonstrated how M-Payment is becoming a mainstream business.
M-Payment 2010 will highlight the realities behind the business models and existing deployments, while looking at what needs to be adjusted as the industry moves forward.
The major themes of the event will include:

1. M-Insurance: How to develop win-win solutions for insurers, delivery channels, and the low-income market with mobile phone.
2. M-Stocks: How to enable investors to trade shares from the comfort of their homes or offices, using the mobile phones.
3. M-Banking: How to determine the killer mobile banking services in different regions.
4. M-Government: How governments in Africa can exploit the mobile phone technology to enhance service delivery.

WEEK AT A GLANCE

WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
M-PAY Africa
The first day of the M-PAY Africa will focus on go-to-market strategies and unbanked markets. We’ll provide an update on commercial mobile financial services deployments in Africa.

THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2009
M-PAY Africa
In the light of interest in multiple topics, the second morning of the summit will give participants the choice between sessions in the Insurance Service or Mobile Government.
In the afternoon session, participants will reconvene to look into Bank-led model VS MNOs led model. What are the emerging technologies and latest innovations and what are the probable business models that will take these forward?

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