8villages started with product specifically for farmers, with the idea of gathering agricultural-related content and spread to farmers via Short-Messaging-Services (SMS), the most simple text service that the lowest end phone can have. Farmers then could ask questions about their crops, weather, seeds and tools to LISA – as they called their SMS service- and get answer almost instantious. Their business model in supporting LISA is using companies CRM or farmers outreach from agricultural companies, until the pool of farmers is large enough to attract more commercial companies in supporting them.
8villages started with product specifically for farmers, with the idea of gathering agricultural-related content and spread to farmers via Short-Messaging-Services (SMS), the most simple text service that the lowest end phone can have. Farmers then could ask questions about their crops, weather, seeds and tools to LISA – as they called their SMS service- and get answer almost instantious. Their business model in supporting LISA is using companies CRM or farmers outreach from agricultural companies, until the pool of farmers is large enough to attract more commercial companies in supporting them.
8villages started with product specifically for farmers, with the idea of gathering agricultural-related content and spread to farmers via Short-Messaging-Services (SMS), the most simple text service that the lowest end phone can have. Farmers then could ask questions about their crops, weather, seeds and tools to LISA – as they called their SMS service- and get answer almost instantious. Their business model in supporting LISA is using companies CRM or farmers outreach from agricultural companies, until the pool of farmers is large enough to attract more commercial companies in supporting them.