Sci & TechDennis Ondeng, chief technology officer at Kopokopo, says the current Covid-19 pandemic might stir positive action in mobile payments. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the need to integrate online payment models into business. Over 13 years since M-Pesa was founded in Kenya, online payment have failed to gain the traction they were expected to. Dennis Ondeng, chief technology officer at Kopokopo, says the current Covid-19 pandemic might stir positive action in mobile payments as the world embraces the inevitable new normal. According to Ondeng, a major disruption is needed to rope in some of the sectors that refuse to adopt online payments.

Source: Standard Digital June 13, 2020 18:06 UTC