An Open USSD Enabler to Simplify Access to Mobile Services in Emerging Countries

Suddul, Geerish; Soobul, Avinash; Bahadoor, Umar; Ramdoyal, Avinash; Doolhur, Naveesh; Richomme, Morgan

doi:10.1109/icetet.2011.53

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“…Local universities are especially targeted as they are usual hotspots of innovation. The Emerginov ecosystem was further enriched with a USSD enabler [10]. The aim of this research is to develop a Web API for Orange Money, the Orange Group solution for mobile payment solution.The number of Orange Money customers increased by 80% in 2012 and the growth perspectives are very high.…”

Section: Market Nichementioning

confidence: 99%

An open API to monetize mobile micro-services for emerging countries

Doolhur¹,

Suddul

Foogooa

et al. 2013

2013 Africon

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Mobile payment is becoming very important throughout the world, especially in emerging countries. Innovative micro-services involving mobile payment become possible only when technical solutions such as web APIs are made available to developers. This enables a fruitful collaboration between powerful telecom operators and nimble "technopreneurs". The Orange Group is a pioneer with its Emerginov platform aimed at revenue sharing between innovators and telecom operators. Orange Group also has a mobile payment solution called Orange Money which, for security reasons, could not be made available to developers. This research has enriched the Emerginov platform by developing an open Web API for securely accessing this mobile payment system. It is expected that the results of this research attract developers to provide innovative micro-services centered around Orange Money.

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Section: Market Nichementioning

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An open API to monetize mobile micro-services for emerging countries

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Suddul

Foogooa

et al. 2013

2013 Africon

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“…For this project, USSD was selected instead of SMS because of the following reasons: a) Unlike SMS which is a store-and-forward, transaction-oriented technology [3], USSD is session-based and interactive, and is real-time, therefore offering faster response [1,3]. USSD service is almost seven times faster than SMS, and there is minimal delay between sending a query and receiving a response [4,8]. b) Being a session-based protocol it allows for a real-time "session" to be initiated between a mobile user and an application platform to send data back and forth.…”

Section: Mobile Phones and Ussdmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…e) It is also much cheaper than SMS and uses simple operations [4]. Also the user does not need to remember anything and does not need either an Internet connection or to install any applications [4,8].…”

Section: Mobile Phones and Ussdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design of a USSD System for TB Contact Tracing

Mosweunyane

Seipone²,

Nkgau³

et al. 2014

Environment and Water Resource Management / 813: Modelling and Simulation / 814: Power and Energy Systems / 815: Health Informa

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Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease spread by tiny airborne particles that are expelled when a person with the disease coughs or sneezes. Botswana has had one of the highest TB notification rates in the world since 2000, mainly as a result of increasing rate of HIV prevalence in the country. People at a high risk of contracting TB are close contacts to a person who already has the disease. It is therefore important that after being diagnosed with TB, all close contacts of the affected patient are traced and interviewed to decide whether they need to be tested for the disease or not, so as to combat the spread of TB. This paper explores the issues involved in the design of a mobile phone-based application for TB contact tracing in Botswana. Problems with the current paper-based method are discussed, and a design and architecture of a mobile phone-based Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) platform is presented.

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An Open USSD Enabler to Simplify Access to Mobile Services in Emerging Countries

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An open API to monetize mobile micro-services for emerging countries

An open API to monetize mobile micro-services for emerging countries

Design of a USSD System for TB Contact Tracing

Bringing Life Where There Is No Light: A Low-Cost Movie Projection and Data Collection Solution for Underserved Areas

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