Yesterday evening I had an opportunity to have a four hours chat with Safaricom CEO, Bob Collymore. He talked about the company, milestones, challenges and what the future holds for the company.
For computer geeks, Safaricom is planning to introduce an M-pesa API after it successfully transfers the M-pesa servers to Kenya. The servers are currently in Germany and mirrored in UK. This might take long but lets hope its done since its already long overdue.
Safaricom is also coming up with an SDK which developers can use to code programs using technologies like USSD. The SDK will be available in six months time.
Safaricom app store is also at development stage. It is long overdue but we hope it will be ready soon.
The disturbing habit of Safaricom sending several text messages when one has insufficient airtime was explained in technical terms and we hope it will be looked into.
The question is do we have enough developers in Kenya?
