Safaricom's Digifarm Transforms Agriculture in Africa Using AWS

Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Safaricom is the largest mobile network operator in the country and provides mobile voice, messaging, data and financial services to nearly 40 million customers in Africa. Safaricom works to transform the lives of its customers by investing in innovation solutions for social and economic empowerment.  One of the prime examples is Safaricom’s investment in the agriculture sector transformation through DigiFarm, a free service that offers smallholder farmers convenient, one-stop access to quality farm inputs at discounted prices, input loans, learning content on farming, and access to markets. In partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Safaricom launched the DigiFarm eMarketplace built on cloud technology as a scalable, highly available, and secure application platform. It allows farmers to sign-up and sell their produce in a frictionless manner using their mobile phones, tablets, or computers. DigiFarm is transforming the agricultural sector across all value chains with the vision to leverage technology to enable small holder farmers become wealthier resulting in sustained food security.

Watch George Njuguna, chief information officer at Safaricom, talk about DigiFarm and learn more about AWS for Telecom at https://aws.amazon.com/telecom.