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Unexpected insight from Mobenzi agents

During a press event we held recently, we got a chance to get qualitative feedback from some of our agents... Read More
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Launching the next phase of the Mobenzi pilot

On May 26th we invited some representatives from the press to the launch of the next phase of our Mobenzi... Read More
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Structured results from free text responses with SMS Insight

One of the first examples to demonstrate how Mobenzi can be used in a commercial context will be through the... Read More
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Mobenzi interview on SAfm

Following a recent press release on Bizcommunity.com, we were invited to discuss Mobenzi in a short interview with Michelle Constant... Read More
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About the participants and what they thought of Mobenzi

Our first pilot project for Mobenzi ended on December 4th 2009 and on the final afternoon we assigned a survey... Read More
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Pilot Project Summary: Creating jobs using mobile phones in an African township

For two weeks, from November 20th to December 4th 2009, we conducted a pilot project in the Valley of a... Read More
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Preventing abuse of the Mobenzi platform

I came across an interesting article on ZDNet entitled "Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy" which discusses how Indian "data processing"... Read More
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Feedback from pilot participants about mobile tasks

One of the tasks we assigned participants (or so-called Mobenzi Agents) on the final day of the pilot was a... Read More
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Twitter sentiment analysis using mobile phones in South Africa

Yesterday I aggregated some data from Twitter that referenced KFC, Nandos, Debonairs or McDonalds and sat with the Mobenzi pilot... Read More

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