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rffab – Raising Funds For African Businesses-

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rffab is a social initiative for creating financing opportunities for African businesses. rffab focuses on creating opportunities and an enabling environment for ordinary people seeking to climb up the business ladder but are challenged or constrained by the rigidities of conventional financial mechanisms.

 

We acknowledge getting funded can be critical to the success of any business, since capital allow businesses to develop and promote their products and/or buy necessary equipment. Receiving funding can be the difference between success and failure for a business.

 

rffab offers businesses the opportunity to access funding but encourage more responsibility and transparency as we jointly work together to build a more sustainable business environment.

 

Mission

To serve as an efficient channel to raise and distribute funds to businesses in sub Saharan Africa.

 

Target Businesses

Prudent businesses that contribute to building strong communities and improving quality of life. They should be socially and environmentally responsible.

rffab seeks to promote sustainable long term businesses while insisting on a positive impact on the bottom line. Our work helps tackle issues such as poverty and access to finance through our involvement in microfinance.

 

How it works

  • · Businesses/entrepreneurs submit their funding requests online

  • · Information are displayed on the website

  • · Potential investors browse through the list of requests and select their preferred choice

  • · Investors are connected with entrepreneurs/businesses

The funding is categorised into SME Financing and Micro Lending

 

JCS Investment Limited Is A Ghana Based Goodwell Partner – Good Source For Funds

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We just found a funding company in Ghana for entrepreneurs. You can approach them for funding. They work with Dutch Goodwell Investment which invested in Nigerian Pagatech recently.

 

JCS Investment Limited is a Social Investment Organization licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission as an Investment Adviser in Ghana. The company which was established in 2004 is focused on providing sustainable long term investments, optimum returns and ‘triple bottom line’ value to its shareholders. In other words,  it is working towards giving our stakeholders

 

  • Positive Economic Returns

  • Strong Social Impact

  • High Environmental Standards

 

With a dedicated team of analysts carefully selects investments and projects that can achieve positive impact, both for the Society and the Environment, this team delivers in its partnership with Dutch based Goodwell Investments. Their  choices of investments are researched in the Context of Sector Development within the Ghanaian economy. And the undertakes comprehensive due diligence to ensure prudent investments.

 

 

 

Mission

JCS is committed to providing an efficient channel to raise and distribute funds to businesses in sub Saharan Africa. We work closely with our Business Partners encouraging best practice, and helping revitalise Investment Businesses operating in the social sphere. We welcome partnership with prudent businesses that contribute to building strong communities and improving quality of life.

Cross River State Government Ramps Up Its Smartgov.CRSG Initiative

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The Cross River State Government is pushing its   Smart Government Cross River (SmartGovCRSG) Limited which is determined to improve accountability in governance, simplify access to social services and create a robust social safety net for citizen of the state.

 

The SmartGov initiative allows the Cross River state government to leverage its investments in technology, automate its ministries, department and agencies, identify all citizens and residents, track and monitor usage of social services, enhance internally generated revenue and automate disbursements and payments by government.

 

This captures the infrastructure including electronic payment gateway, smartcard management system, risk and fraud management system and an enterprise (data exchange) service-oriented bus. It also includes biometric-based identity smartcity cards which would be issued to citizens and residents under the SmartGov project and would contain cardholders’ information while providing cardholders with access to healthcare, pension, transportation, educational bursaries, social amenities and benefits.

 

 

Equally, the SmartGov initiative would enable Cross River State to identify its citizens, grow revenue, eliminate wastage, simplify governance and increase access to government services.

 

 

This is one huge project the government is working on to position itself in the arena of Government 2.0.

Tablets Hold The Ace For Automotive Infotainment Systems

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Tablets hold strong potential for use as rear-seat entertainment solutions in automotive infotainment systems, new IHS iSuppli research indicates. According to the research, the path for the wide usage of tablets in cars has been paved by smart phones, which have attained a key position in infotainment systems.

 

Tablets offer similar levels of integration as smart phones, while sporting a larger screen size more suitable for content and information consumption,” said Luca De Ambroggi, senior analyst for automotive infotainment at IHS. “This makes tablets an optimal solution for rear seat entertainment.


One of the key differences among PCs and media tablets is the fact that the media tablet’s main purpose is to communicate, browse, search and read information and enjoy media and social networks. Tablets are not intended for the creation of content.

 

Another feature that distinguishes tablets from other platforms is that tablets are essentially a screen, or a touch screen, to be more precise. This defining attribute, together with the absence of a keyboard, confirms the media tablet’s focus on content consumption rather than creation.

Nonetheless, connectivity has not particularly improved since there is still no supporting USB host interface in the iPad 2. iPad competitors have offered differing approaches to connectivity, trying to take advantage of what might be considered a weak point for Apple. The newly announced Google Honeycomb based on Android 3.1 serves as an example of a tablet supporting USB hosting.

 

 

MXit is An Instant Messaging Application – A Tech Giant In Africa

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From Wikipedia, we collect the following on MXit

 

MXitis a free instant messaging application developed by MXit Lifestyle (Pty) Ltd. in South Africa that runs on multiple mobile and computing platforms. Along with its own standard protocol, it can connect to Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Facebook, AIM, or Windows Live Messenger contacts as well. MXit currently has 27 Million subscribers, making it the largest social network in Africa, with 40 000 new subscribers joining every day.

 

You better watch. This stuff is addictive and can drop your grades if you are a  student. Be warned before you sign up. Parents in South Africa are crying that kids are failing exams because of the addition this service provides. Yet, we cry the same way after Faceook. Who cares to learn? This is social media and it may not really matter to learn since you can post your homeworks in Yahoo Answers.

 

Founded in South Africa by a Namibian entrepreneur, Herman Heunis, Mxit is a free instant messaging application that runs on both mobile and computing platforms. Mxit offers a wide range of services including social networking, mobile voice clips, music & entertainment, banking access and other community based applications. Through its own standard protocol, Mxit subscribers can also connect to other social networks and instant messaging applications such as Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ.

 

Between 2005 when it launched and now, Mxit has amassed close to 20 million subscribers, making it one of the larger social networks in the world and the largest in Africa. It currently transmits over 250 million messages per day and features some of the common functions of a conventional instant messaging client, such as file transfers, contact lists, a group chat called MultiMX and photo sharing through a mobile phone’s built-in camera.