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3. Insights and Innovations
Today and the way forward for research
from a users perspective
November 2014
Shirley Harding
Head Market Research
Standard Bank Group
4. 5 trends driving growth in
Africa
Africa’s dormant resources potential
Africa’s deepening financial sector
A larger, younger, and more affluent
population
Africa’s transformational urban swell
Leapfrogging through technology
6. Mobile phone penetration
2017
346Million
UNIQUE MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS
135%
66%
35%
Unique subscribers GSMA Penetration McKinsey ITU data
100%
50%
72%
57%
31% 30% 30%
96%
45% 48%
49%
68%
88%
160%
140%
120%
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
South
Africa
Angola Ghana Kenya Tanzania Nigeria Ivory
Coast
Senegal
Source: GSMA Sub Saharan African Mobile Economy 2013 /The Lions go digital McKinsey & Company 2013
7. Device used to access internet banking
Source: Standard Bank Proprietary survey
8. The BIG promise of mobile research
sits in self selection/self completion
interviews
BUT
These come with their challenges
9. Technological
Device
type
Data
access
Majority of users are still
on feature phones
Many with limited functionality
2G remains the
predominant connection
Source: GSMA Sub Saharan African Mobile Economy 2013
11. Technological
Device
type
Data
access
Literacy and
Language
Literacy Language
Research
literacy
Scepticism
Survey
competence
Panels and lists
Not readily
available
Less
Control
12. But a mobile world means
so much more for
researchers
22. Phto
Shirley Harding
Standard Bank Group
Picture scanned from Safaricom calendar: Seeds of success by Mutua Matheka
Na Gode
Asante
Thank you
Ngiyabonga
Obrigada
Zikomo