Mobenzi

Mobenzi is a software service that empowers people to be rewarded for completing simple tasks on their mobile phones. We are currently piloting the system and are confident that we will be able to take some live projects on within the next few months. Although there are several business applications we are addressing with Mobenzi, sorting of SMS data is our initial focus. The concept of human intelligence tasks (simple tasks that computers find difficult) was first popularised by Amazon with their Mechanical Turk web service. We also recently came across Textonic that is attempting to leverage Mechanical Turk for tagging SMS messages in a similar way to Mobenzi. We hope that Mobenzi will be very well suited to processing SMS data since the processing itself can be done on a mobile phone by a Mobenzi agent who speaks the same language as those people sending the SMS messages. We plan on making it very easy to set up new teams of Mobenzi agents in new locations so that the agents will understand the local languages and colloquial terms that are included in the data that needs to be processed.