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5 Star Partner Hoarding in Ampara Town (Eastern Sri Lanka)
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Dialog Axiata’s “5 Star Partner” programme extends the
company’s reach to customers in rural areas by way of “Infomediaries” –
Information Intermediaries. This exclusive corps of highly trained and
carefully selected independent rural entrepreneurs enables Dialog to improve
customers’ lives by reducing costs and delays in accessing services, as well as
by opening up access to life-enhancing mobile services many currently do not
fully utilize.
Dialog Infomediary Initiative (DII) – under the theme of
Inclusive Business (IB), Dialog Axiata PLC has developed a robust business case
to empower communities at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) and is desirous of
establishing a Social Enterprise Retail Network through an initiative known as
“Dialog 5 Star Partner” to bridge the last-mile in its downstream value chain. The
envisaged 5 Star Network is to build an innovative and non-traditional ‘Infomediary
Network’ that relies on social entrepreneurs (information intermediaries) to
reach consumers at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP).
5 Star Partners receive significant investment and support
from Dialog to position them as Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
or to be specific, Mobile for Development (m4D) ambassadors in their villages.
Dialog is working towards placing 1000 "5 Star Partners" across rural Sri Lanka
within 2012 with the support of International Finance Corporation (IFC) and GSM Association (GSMA). A third of all 5 Star Partners are located in the North and East
of the country which were worst-affected by civil conflict, and where Dialog
was the first MNO to re-establish coverage.
Dialog acknowledges that communities that are segmented at
varying levels of e-readiness require creative business models to reach each
segment effectively. Low income communities that are geographically isolated
display lowest levels of e-readiness and are at the receiving end of the
Digital Divide continuum. To date Dialog has made significant progress in fulfilling the
various components of the "5 Star" ecosystem and is currently poised to roll out a
trial "5 Star Partner Initiative" encompassing 1000 tier three retailers equally distributed across Sri
Lanka. Dialog has invested resources in building complementary services such as
Rural Value Added Services (VAS) and charging mechanisms to serve the needs of the
poor through the 5 Star Partner network.
-Sameera.
sameera do they run internet cafes? what is the main service provide by them.
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ReplyDeletesorry for the late reply. some of them run internet cafes. their main service is to provide mobile based info and other services.
-Sameera.
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