Interested in analysing the financial feasibility or defining the business model of your technology solution targeting underserved communities?
Ungana-Afrika has released a feasibility analysis of a Village Connection trial that can be used as an example case by others when defining and analysing ICT based business models in base-of-the-pyramid markets.
Ungana-Afrika and the Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have released the Village Operator Feasibility Framework under a Creative Commons Licence. The Feasibility Framework presents a methodology for evaluating whether a rural ICT entrepreneur (or Village Operator) can be viable at a given site.
This training manual, shared under a Creative Commons license, describes how participatory methods can be used for (ICT) needs assessment, business idea generation, and idea testing.