A Day with Team Nandimobile

Just recently I sat with this great team of software developers cum entrepreneurs who have built an award winning service that allows potential and existing clients of businesses or any such entities interact seamlessly with the organisation via SMS.

Nandimobile, born in July last year and presently in the Meltwater Business incubator is the company providing this much needed service which will give customers of businesses greater power in choosing how to interact with corporate Ghana. For example; one could simply send an SMS to a designated short code to inquire from say a bank about the requirements to open an account for example. All the customer need do is to precede the question with the name of the bank or institution of his/her choice and within minutes the customer gets a response to the query from the bank where he wants to open an account. Hence with this service people would from the comfort of their homes interact very cheaply with businesses and have very simple questions answered. Instead of making costly calls now we can simply send an SMS to have our queries answered.

The company has on its management team some of the finest young brains in software development and entrepreneurship in this part of the world. From left; Edward Tagoe (proud member of the prestigious ɔdadee 2002 year group) is the Business Development Lead, Anne is the Technical Lead and Michael Darkwa is the Product Development Lead.

Nandi is derived from “umunandi” a Zambian phrase with roots in the Bemba language and means “my friend”. The name nandi was settled on to reflect the company’s commitment to empowering relationships and enabling connections. The name was also chosen to highlight the company’s commitment to deploying its services to Africa and the rest of the world.

The company is currently embarking on a rigorous campaign to roll out their services country-wide and then expand into the rest of Africa in the near future. They are speaking with a wide spectrum of business organisations to have them sign up to the service.

In my opinion Nandimobile couldn’t have come at a better time. With national mobile phone penetration levels hovering at approximately 74 percent this service will create the much needed value for a device that’s always in our pockets or purses.

Keep watching this space to see how the great Nandimobile story evolves.

Nandimobile... empowering connections.