villageTell Mobile Alliance

Alliance Business Models?

1. villageTell Branded Handset (Mobile Virtual Network Operator, MVNO or Enhanced Service Provider, ESP) - pre-loaded with Google's Android Mobile OS with rich Internet access integrating relevant agribusiness, remittance transaction system, mobile banking (Wizzit), financial budgeting, health info, and personal economic development tools. 

(ARPU / MOU = RPM) x (Royalty x # of Units) = Revenue

2. villageTell Mobile Software Only Model - Google's Android Mobile OS with rich Internet access integrating relevant agribusiness, remittance transaction system, mobile banking (Wizzit), financial budgeting, health info, and personal economic development tools. Available to any mobile operators for use on their handsets or decks. Designed to encourage reform (tax holiday's) for rural connectivity development cooperatives between mobile operators and local governments. 

Google's Advertising Revenue Strategy for Android (already in play)

How Can the VMA Impact People Lives and Economies?

Customized and contextualized mobile OS and handsets designed to aid the rural poor in developing nations. Agribusiness trading platform, remittance flow management and acceleration, medical help, safety, commerce, and education.    

What is the villageTell Mobile Alliance?

The villageTell Mobile Alliance is a consortium of public-private partners with a common mission to bring affordable and sustainable mobile phone communications with high-speed Internet access to the rural poor in developing nations, starting with West Africa, specifically, Sierra Leone.

Alliance Partners:

• The Sierra Leone Government
• villageTell Sierra Leone Ltd (Sierra Leone)
• The United States Government (USAID's - GDA, DNA & the FBCI)
• Israel (Knesset Christian Allies Caucus - Josh Reinstein, Director)
• Google (Andy Rubin's Android - complete, open, and free mobile platform). Android is reported to have "the spirit of Linux with the reach of Windows" - WIRED Magazine, July, 2008 - Google's Open Source Android Will Free the Wireless Web.
• Open Handset Alliance
• HTC (Dream), Motorola, Samsung
• villageTell
• IFC - Village Phone
• AccessPoint (Remittance Systems Innovators - London to Africa) - Leah Mansaray
• Covenant Alliances
• Rotary International

Sidebar Development: Anroid killer(?), Symbian Foundation (Nokia & Symbian)

"What is Past is Prologue"

This is only the beginning. On July 4, 2008, we (my family and I, Deb, Madison and Mia) found ourselves on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the Archives of The United States reading the inscription from William Shakespeare:

"What is Past is Prologue"

Today, only 15% of the 4 billion people living on less than $2 per day have access to a phone, and only 20% of the entire world's population has access to the Internet. With mobile handset sales outpacing PC sales almost 4 to 1, Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, and Google's founder's Larry Page and Sergey Brin are banking on the fact that most of the world's population, and especially the rural poor are going to experience the Internet for the first time on a handset, not a PC. This is only the beginning...