Comments on: Village Billboards and a National Classifieds System

By: Tackling Africa’s Classified Listings Space — WhiteAfrican

Tackling Africa’s Classified Listings Space — WhiteAfrican — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:24:17 +0000

[…] approach. Phase 2 of this approach should look a lot like what I wrote about back in 2009, on how village billboards should be leveraged alongside the mobile phone shops in smaller […]

By: Village Billboards and supply chain : Africa Supply Chain Frontier

Village Billboards and supply chain : Africa Supply Chain Frontier — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:11:53 +0000

[…] Hersman blogs about Zach Lutische, a man with an interesting concept envisioned for rural […]

By: Village Billboards and supply chain | The Supply Chan Lab

Village Billboards and supply chain | The Supply Chan Lab — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:32:24 +0000

[…] Hersman blogs about Zach Lutische, a man with an interesting concept envisioned for rural […]

By: Vincenzo Russo

Vincenzo Russo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:58:58 +0000

Hi, on 23rd april I’ll post an Italian translated version of this post on our blog.
Thank you, it’s a very interisting post.
We are an Italian NGO working mainly in worker rights field.
Ciao,
Vincenzo

By: mocality

mocality — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:46:50 +0000

There’s no reason this shouldn’t work in Kenya!!

By: paolo manzelli

paolo manzelli — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:05:02 +0000

Dear Colleagues, I hope to be kind by sending information to you and my papers at International COLLOQUIUM 2009 in BENIN AFRICA
( 23 -27 APRIL-09)
see : http://www.wbabin.net/manzelli2.pdf
; http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/lre/creaclass_africa
. http://www.wbabin.net/manzelli2i.pdf pdf;

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By: Tielman

Tielman — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:20:11 +0000

This concept also holds real potential for companies and non governmental organizations (NGOs) from a supply chain perspective as the need for increased visibility is one of they key challenges in emerging markets.

Visibility will allow distributors and suppliers to determine product availability and potential demand. Mobile information can provide an important inventory management system for companies struggling to understand the demand in their rural outlet base.

Many companies do not deliver to rural areas as companies normally struggle to make the financial numbers work with less than truck load (LTL) deliveries. With increased visibility, logistics companies can consolidate loads from various suppliers and reduce distribution cost in the process. A central location can also be used as a cross-docking site serving a network of villages in the area.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:55:11 +0000

Great read. Great idea!

I agree that it could become a really big thing too!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:54:33 +0000

This reminds me of a blog post at Afrigadget the other day…

Liberia’s Blackboard Blogger
http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/03/13/liberias-blackboard-blogger/

By: Pontus

Pontus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:13:03 +0000

🙂 Great idea.