I noted in the duality element that digital products which thrive are typically both products and platforms. It would be hopeless to build modern digital products without having a moat through platforms. Interestingly, the greatest digital ICT utilities have double plays in their business models: if Amazon decimates many brick-and-mortar stores, it would welcome many online to sell them cloud services. Alibaba welcomes you to its marketplace platforms, and you certainly have signed up for its payment processing solutions which command commissions.
No matter how you see it, no one has done well in the world being a pure ecommerce firm (multi-vendor, multi-selection category, multi-product, etc marketplace; not ecommerce store) without a double play strategy. Consider that as you build one in Africa.
Based on the one oasis strategy, the double play will continue to support Amazon’s growth even as it loses money in the ecommerce business. You need your one oasis.
Thanks for joining the Zenvus Boundary partnership. We appreciate working with all of you. We write to note that we are releasing Zenvus Boundary flavor for real estate developers & surveyors tailored for government-licensed surveyors (learn how to join). Nothing changes on the mobile app. But in our web app, you would have option to download the report for Real Estate uses.
Zenvus Boundary maps farm, land or house perimeter boundaries, calculates the areas and populates the data onto Google Earth. From Zenvus portal, the surveys can be downloaded or printed. It supports cooperatives, governments and individual farmers, enabling these entities to have survey reports at a fraction of the typical cost of surveys.
This version will have the following features
Compatibility with the Surveyor General digital systems
Exportable to other packages used in surveying
Archival capability
Costs less than 5% of the typical cost of digital surveys
If your state government has a special template, send it; team will make sure the format aligns with what the state demands.
Meanwhile, that farm or farmland does not need any complicated regulation. You Can begin there by downloading the app today.
In June 2017, I made a case that 2022 will be the inflection year where mobile internet will begin to seed new business models in Nigeria (and Africa) at scale. It will be the year of Wireless Nigeria and Wireless Africa.
In today’s videocast, I make a case that Africa will enter the era of affordable broadband internet in 2022. That will be the year we will begin a new dawn of immersive connectivity where you can eat and surf all you can. Industry players will take off the Internet meter and then focus on service, experience and quality. From satellite broadband vendors to the MNCs with balloons and drones, the sector will become very competitive and service will drive growth. This has happened in the past – every decade, Africa experiences a major industrial transformation. We saw that in banking and voice telephony. 2020s, starting at 2022, will be the decade of immersive connectivity.
I just saw some numbers and plots, and the 2022 is looking real. Simply, by 2022, global population will be at parity with internet users. The implication is that within the next four years, we would have additional 4.2 billion internet users. Most of them would come from Africa and India.
According to Diamandis newsletter, three things will drive this redesign:
5G: Massive deployment will begin around 2020 and it will deliver 100X faster than 4G, and 10X faster than broadband.
Balloons: With Google Loon and others, this is going to facilitate internet penetration at a big level. Balloons are ready to be massively scaled by 2020.
Space-based networks: OneWeb is going live in 2020 and SpaceX is just around the corner also.
With 5G on the ground, balloons in the air and private satellites blanketing the Earth from space, we are on the verge of connecting every person on the planet with gigabit connection speeds at de minimis cost.
This shift will be massive – balloons, satellites and 5G will blanket the world with connectivity. Many sectors in Nigeria will open up for massive dislocation and disruption as data becomes largely affordable. Google Loon and SpaceX see Africa as their markets, this will happen. You need to plan ahead because 2022 is it.
As Nigeria goes through a challenging season of political quagmire, I want you to remember that nations rarely kaput. Yes, Nigeria and Nigerians would always be around. And despite anything, Nigeria will remain an opportunity. I share this video about two men I study – Carlos Slim (Mexican billionaire) and Franklin Templeton (stock picker of 20th century). As Abuja demoralizes you, remember that the sun will always rise. Do not kill that idea, because Nigeria will always be.
I study two men – Franklin Templeton and Carlos Slim – for my family investment strategies. Templeton began a firm in 1947, against all odds, at the ruins of World War II. Mr Slim bought anything in his sight at one of the lowest points in Mexican history – the peso was down and markets in ruins. Templeton trusted the human race and bought “useless” stocks. Slim’s father told him that countries do not fail; they always come back. I read about these two
On behalf of my good colleagues in our business, we want to thank the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), a government agency, for promoting Zenvus in its global publication. When your nation is behind you, the world will come to party with you.
Our vision remains to “cure” extreme poverty in Africa by improving farm yields via replacing guesswork in farming with data-driven agricultural systems. If more than 65% of African working population works in agriculture, doubling farm yields will reduce poverty by at least 30%. So, agriculture is the fastest way to improve the wellbeing of the citizens.
Zenvus is a pioneering precision farming technology company which uses computational algorithm and electronics to transform farms. Know When, How and What to farm.
