Hi Logan,
At 08:58 02-01-2016, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>I was in a dinner a few days ago with a friend, and he also mentioned
>this term. Honestly, I didn't know what it means. In my view,
>Uberization cannot quite work in Mauritius because we are still stuck
>with shops that do not accept payment by cards. We still have to carry
>cash. The problem is how much cash ?
It's basically a process where you cut out the intermediaries in the
supply chain. It is not related to shops which do not accept payment by cards.
>e.g, in Ebene, there are food shops which accept payment by cash only.
>Same goes for the street merchants. Assume that they vary the price of
>the food every week. If they don't publish it via a website, then, it's
>hard for me to know how much cash I have to retrieve from the ATM. These
>days, some argue that you should not walk around with a lot of money as
>well.
This is an interesting problem. I can think of at least one alternative. :-)
>In order for a large number of people in Mauritius to benefit from
>Uberization, we would need
>
>1) Public wifi everywhere so that people can go online (We should not
>forget that 60% of households are connected to the Internet). We need a
>way to make it possible for the less fortunate to be able to get it.
That's something which the ICT Advisory Council to work on if it
believes that it is a problem.
>2) A cheap and easy way for any shop to push their prices in real time
>on the web. I'm not sure if facebook is a good platform for this.
You already know my opinion about Facebook island.
>3) Payment by cards becoming accessible for street merchants which is
>much easier for fluctuating prices.
Do you mean that hawkers should accept payment by credit card?
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Sat Jan 02 2016 - 23:12:44 PST
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