Around 80% of Africa's work force is in the informal sector. A dominant chunk consists of people selling goods to people in their community as a means to sustain themselves or to supplement their incomes
The vast majority of transactions in this sector take place offline. With this comes fundamental in inefficiencies and barriers to growth and scale for traders
The net result - billions of dollars in revenue and economic value are not realised
QWILI IS BUILDING AN OPERATING SYSTEM THAT RUNS ON ITS SMARTPHONES. THE CORE ELEMENT OF THE SOFTWARE IS A SALES PORTAL USED BY MICRO MERCHANTS TO SELL VALUE-ADDED SERVICES, ENABLING THE PHONE TO ACT AS A POINT-OF SALE SYSTEM.