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Sms Zimbabwe
Letter to Mobile Network Providers
Third World E-Commerce - first document
Third World E-Commerce - second document
Dear All,
TWEC - Third World E-Commerce - is a very exciting, very simple, but very revolutionary GLOBAL project with 3 faces -
1 - an open global and free sms gateway which can be used by a variety of (registered/approved/authorised/appropriate) Sms-based interactive data service providers (IDSPs)
2 - an open global and free classified adverts system which is designed to stimulate small and micro business - this will be sms-based but also with a normal web-based interface
3 - an open global and free business-to-business (B2B) system which will enable a large variety of sub-systems to operate within its boundary - e.g. jobs advertisements, resume/cv databank, etc etc etc - this will be web-based only - find this system now at ec3wd - and it has an sms gateway for incoming adverts...
(3) can operate without any need for (1) or (2). (2) can operate with localised sms gateways if no global sms gateway as in (1) exists, but the presence of (1) enables (2) to operate globally in the best possible fashion. The existence of (1)
also enables trillions of IDSPs to spring up....
The 4 documents above have some overlap - smszim and MNP_Letter are primarily on the sms gateway and open classified adverts system, and the 2 documents Twec1 and Twec2 are primarily on the B2B system...
Alex Weir, Harare, December 2008
Press Release - 8 March 2008
http://www.ec3wd.com/Default.aspx -
and http://www.ec3wd.com/help.htm
Ec3wd – something for everyone in these hard times
A radically different website is launched this week – ec3wd.com is conceived, designed, funded, written and implemented by a Scottish software developer based in Zimbabwe – Alex Weir. The intention of this site is to stimulate economic development in the Third World – the timing may be fortuitous, since the whole Global Economy is greatly in need of stimulation...
In fact, the site is not restricted to the Third World – individuals, companies and organisations from every country are eligible to use ec3wd.
What does the site do? What doesn’t it do is a better question. It is a submit-and-search site which encompasses Resumes (CV’s), Job Advertisements, classified adverts (all categories), domestic and foreign investment and projects, volunteers, tourism, events, downloads, e-books, educational material etc.. The whole concept and implementation is professional and hard-headed – there is no amateur woolly-thinking do-gooder weakness here.
Usage of the site is free to everyone – both material submitters and searchers. There are no restrictions to entry and no registration procedure. The site is funded by advertising (done discretely by Google adsense).
The site is not restricted to the English Language – it operates in every language in the world – because of this, Weir expects a lot of activity from Arabic countries, from China, from Russia, from South America and from the Francophone area.
It also accepts adverts via SMS/text message, which is pervasive throughout the third world as well as being a very used medium in the West. The more conventional interface of the site is webpage through PC or through mobile phone.
Searches can be extremely localised or can be global, or anything in between. Searching is done by piggy-backing on Google – the interface does some smart things to make the use of advanced Google searching completely simple.
Weir expects exponential growth of ec3wd, and has strategies for handling traffic if the takeoff is even faster than he anticipates.
The site is hosted in the USA, so don’t expect any Zimbabwean-style response times or outages.
Ec3wd stands for E-Commerce 3rd World.