Mobenzi Intelligence empowers people to be rewarded for doing simple tasks on their phones
- Certain business problems require uncomplicated human thought and cannot be automated by a computer program.
- Millions of people that live in poverty have hours of idle time available and are intellectually capable of solving these kinds of problems.
- Mobile phones are widespread in Africa and are well suited for supporting the completion of simple forms.
Featured Blog Articles
Mobenzi at TEDxJohannesburg
“Tackling poverty one mobile task at a time” is the story of how Mobenzi came about and a somewhat personal perspective of the events which led to my involvement in the project.
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Proudly South African, Proudly Mobenzi
Travelling to KwaNyuswa, through the Valley of A Thousand Hills was a journey that taught me a vital life lesson:... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 MoreHistory
Clyral is a software development company based just outside of Durban in South Africa. In 2005 we created Mobenzi Researcher to allow organisations to capture data in remote locations using standard mobile phones. We designed the software as a platform because we had many other application ideas that involved the completion of mobile forms.
Pilot Project
In 2009 we partnered with the Shared Growth Challenge Fund to extend the Mobile Researcher platform to cater for the completion of human intelligence tasks and to pilot the service with low income people in South Africa’s urban poverty nodes.
