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Fast Europe Ventures bring mobile payment for Kosovo and region

Kushtrim Xhakli — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:12:43 +0000

July 1, 2009 – Its a fact that in the world there are 4 billion mobile phone users, but only 2 billion bank accounts holders. This is not just an information but a reason for an alternative payment service using mobile launched today by the company Fast Europe Ventures in collaboration with portal Telegrafi.com. This service in essence turns your phone into a mini-credit card, and allows you to pay from the mobile, using credit that you have in your mobile phone.

Telegrafi portal has launched a service “Advertising” where the consumer can put an advertisement which can be seen by over 80.000 visitors and potential customers per day. The entire process of putting an ad is extremely simple, cheap and quick.

Currently all mobile operator subscribers can use this service, except Vala Mobile customers, who will soon be part of it. Since the beginning of this year, the company Fast Europe Ventures has been engaged with local operators and partners in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia to bring the m-payment (m-commerce) service in the region connecting all three countries into single payment gateway.

“Based on the fact that in Europe the average spending per person for m-payments is around 30-50 Euros, in this region with an estimation of 10 Euros spending per person over a year, it is expected to reach a turnover of 15-20 million Euros a year in next 10 years”, said Kushtrim Xhakli, Chief Executive Officer of Fast Europe Ventures.

M-payment model is most suitable model for monetizing media such as TV, radio and web. Telegrafi portal is the most popular site across Albanian speaking countries and the first partner implementing m-payment.

Managing Director of Telegrafi portal Gani Lajqi said: “We are now entering a new competitive field in global market providing quick information, services and access. In recent years Telegrafi has proved to be the most innovative portal in Albanian market with 80% market share. Our partnership with Fast Europe Ventures proved to be fruitful and it will be enhanced in future. ”

The link where you can put your announcement and pay with mobile phone is at: http://www.telegrafi.com/shpallje, or “Shpallje” button in every Telegrafi portal page.

Fast Europe Ventures covers 2.8 million mobile subscribers in Western Balkan region.

Elsewhere:
Telecompaper: Fast Europe, Telegrafi partner on m-payments in Kosovo
PC World Albanian: FEV sjell shërbimin e ri M-Payment në Kosovë
New Kosova Report: Fast Europe Ventures and Telegrafi bring mobile payment to Kosovo and the region
TMCnet: ‘Fast Europe, Telegrafi partner on m-payments in Kosovo’
The Paypers: Fast Europe Ventures, Telegrafi launch mobile payment service in Kosovo
Telegrafi: Telegrafi dhe FEV sjellin m-payment për Ju

LIFT Conference 2009

Kushtrim Xhakli — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:37:37 +0000

Where has the future gone? This is what Lift09 explored during three sunny days on February 2009 in Geneva. Many things have changed in the past decades, even if we don’t ride flying cars nor have smart fridges ordering our carrots. Ask yourself this: are you sure you want your neighbor – the one who tends to make a long stop at the pub after work – to drive a vehicle with wings? We’re not sure either.

We all have different futures, and in William Gibson’s famous words, “future is not evenly distributed”. It is up to us to built it, and we certainly had with us some of the people who have a shot at influencing it with brilliant ideas. See the Lift09 talks and for more check the blogs, Flickr and Twitter.

During days of conference Sandbox (http://www.sandbox-network.com), a global network for extraordinary young talents together with LIFT Conference organised a dinner with the same topic bringing together extraordinary young achievers under age of 30 to network, exchange ideas and talk about some questions related to this years’ conference topic, “Where did the future go?”.

LIFT Conference is the highest reccomended conference in Europe, this year was amazing to see Vint Cerf, Google Evangelist talking about Interplanetary Internet (see video below)

Best Practice Award 2008

Kushtrim Xhakli — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:25:26 +0000

During ECDL Foundation CEO Summit in Vienna which was held during 23-25 October 2008, a special award was granted to trajnimi.com national portal, which has adopted ECDL as a standard for ICT education and as a means to increase employability in Kosovo.
Award was given from Jim Friars, Chairman of ECDL Foundation to Kushtrim Xhakli representative of the portal which was launched in 2007 and had a major success on advancing the IT skills based education in Kosovo.

Speaking at ECDL Foundation CEO Summit Vienna, 23-25 October 2008

Mobile Monday

Kushtrim Xhakli — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:57:55 +0000

Going to Mobile Monday event in Vilnius, Lithuania, to see presentations about “Mobile payments. Topicalities and perspectives”.
Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Kushtrim Xhakli — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:54:07 +0000

I had the unique opportunity this year to visit CERN’s Large Hadron Collider a day after LIFT Conference 2008, an experience which helped me to understand better CERN and its innovation. I was in a group together with Bruce Sterling, Ben Segal, Robert Scoble (who did the video below), Aral Balkan and others. Below is a video which helps you understand what is happening underneath CERN research and scientific labs. Thanks to Robert Scoble for recording and putting it live in FastCompany.tv.

LIFT08 pulse

Kushtrim Xhakli — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:46:36 +0000

Lufthansa Technology Forum

Kushtrim Xhakli — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:39:13 +0000

At DLD Conference Lufthansa asked:
In view of modern rail travel concepts, what innovative ideas and visions must the aviation industry implement in order still to be attractive in 15 years’ time?

A very good question to discuss, with all frequency of planes growing daily, unconditional weather, delays, and plus now double security checks, traveling has become a nightmare. What will amuse the human being in 15 years to still think that flights are attractive is technology and the use of it in costumer side. More analysis to come in this topic.

LIFT and DLD

Kushtrim Xhakli — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:32:57 +0000

DLD Conference has ended yesterday, where 1000 individuals discussed about Challenges in Global World, Getting Social, Future Cities and Exploding Media. They raised up issues which were followed up in blogosphere, some of the participants tried even to Live streaming from mobile phones using QIK | Streaming video right from your phone.

DLD was popular this week, this shows an increase of Blog Trends report in the graph below.

Social, Presence, Conversation and Network

Kushtrim Xhakli — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:08:41 +0000

I’m going to LIFT Conference 2008 with set of tools to create, share and present. I will create network possibly by increasing my Linkedin connections, I will share conversation and a presence during LIFT08 with Twitter, and will get much social with Facebook (physical contacts only).

Here is the trend graph of recent months popularity of these social networks:

Meanwhile I will have a possibly to present my open stage proposition: How innovative projects can transform education and ICT opportunities. (Your vote and support is highly appreciated at this stage).

And the most important part is to meet with network of people i created last year, compliments to LIFT team for making the event this year much more valuable to be part of it.

LIFT Conference 2008

Kushtrim Xhakli — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:30:48 +0000

LIFT Conference is about to start soon, this time richer with program attached with preliminary network using social media softwares. As last year main discussion during the breaks was Twitter, this year it Facebook will dominate the field. The recent report provided by Glen O’Neil on Network Mapping shows the increase of network among participants, this time I expect an increase of 30% of contacts in Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter.