Our Purpose
Unleash the constraints of the rural Africa
There are disadvantages that people have to tolerate by living in a rural area. Even if they choose to go to cities for job opportunities, they have to pay a high cost of living and live away from their family. Dots for Inc. exists to eliminate such disadvantages and build a world for everyone to choose where to live without feeling inconvenience.
Message From CEO
What is the image that comes to mind when you hear the word “Africa?”
When we start talking about Africa, many people seem to think first of either a “poverty-stricken Africa” or a “rapidly developing Africa."
But when we actually visit rural villages, we find an Africa that is neither.
We see people who are poor, but who live really happily, talking with their families and neighbors over a cup of tea, laughing, singing, dancing, etc. On the other hand, they are stuck in poverty for reasons beyond their individual control and are in a very vulnerable position where the slightest negative impact, like a car accident or bad weather, can put a family's livelihood at risk. Many adults are forced to leave their families and migrate to cities to work, seeing their families only a few times a year.
We, Dots for, believes that communication and digitalization are the key to changing these lives. We want to create a world where people in rural Africa can stay with their families and friends in the villages where they were born and raised, while being connected to the world, and having access to a variety of opportunities and income increases taken for granted. We will realize this world, which has already been established in most countries and regions, especially in developed countries, in rural Africa where people have been left behind because of their low income.
CARLOS OBA
Benin office
Our Core Value
Everything for customers
Everything we do is done to maximize the value delivered to our customers.
Trust all "dots"
We treat everyone with respect and believe that each of them is a "Dot" with the potential to change the world.
Shake your heart
We create moments that make our hearts tremble as we pursue our beliefs.
Prove your value to the world
We must have a mission to prove the meaning of our existence through our own actions.
Tumble first
We are not afraid to fall down. Failure is not failure if we have the opportunity to get up and learn.
Be modest explorers
We recognize that we don’t know what we don’t know, and we keep searching for a better world, continuing our adventure to expand it.
Stand on your feet
We question “well-known” problems and taken-for-granted assumptions, and act based on our own experiences and perspectives as those directly affected.
Our Mission
Bridging the Digital Divide: Closing the Information and Opportunity Gap for 3.5 Billion People Through the Power of Connectivity and Technology
Today, around 3.5 billion people around the world live in what is known as the digital divide — a state where individuals are unable to access or benefit from digital technologies and internet connectivity. Due to both economic and geographic barriers, they have been left behind by the wave of digitalization and access to communication networks. This situation has created a huge information and opportunity gap between rural residents and the rest of the population, which in turn has created a serious income disparity. In Africa, internet penetration remains below 30%. However, traditional telecom operators have little incentive to make large investments in infrastructure for these regions, where populations are widely dispersed and income levels are low. As a result, the digital divide continues to persist with no clear sign of improvement.
Dots for uses a local communication network to build digital platforms for rural users who cannot access the internet. Through these platforms, we provide a variety of useful smartphone-based services, helping to close the digital divide and solve the challenges that rural communities face through the power of communication and technology.
Our Approach
From Isolation to Connection
In the past, information was mainly exchanged in person within the village. Dots for enables access to information and opportunities beyond the village through digital communication. This helps bridge the information and opportunity gaps, and brings new options and perspectives to rural areas.
Our Services
The distributed wireless network technology "d.CONNECT"
d.Connect is a distributed wireless network technology that selectively transmits through multiple wireless routers in a distributed manner, unlike the conventional star network centered on a base station. d.Connect will be installed in each rural village scattered across Africa, where the Internet communication network is still underdeveloped, using this technology, which is now in widespread use, to provide constant Internet access and various online services running on it.
Digitalization of Rural Areas realized by "Smartphone Installment Sales”
To facilitate access to our d.Connect and better navigation for villagers, we sell them smartphone for which they are required to pay per week.
Digitization of rural areas achieved through the sale of the very low-cost internet connection
Achieving digitization in rural areas hinges on the widespread availability of extremely affordable internet connections. By making these connections accessible at minimal cost, rural communities can harness the transformative power of digital technology to bridge socioeconomic gaps and drive inclusive development.
Take the right step,
do the big things.
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We are available year-round to respond to inquiries regarding partnerships, market research, and investment opportunities in Africa.
What is our corporate color ?
Originally, we had chosen green as our company color, but after entering the field, we noticed a pattern in the color of the walls and roofs of our customers’ houses, who live in rural villages.
That color was “Aka-sabi” (rust-red). We then decided Aka-sabi would be our color for two main reasons:
- This color is present in the daily lives of our customers and it adequately embodies our most important value "Everything for customer".
- We hope that, when people see Africa in Google Maps, they will see many dots of this color, representing the potential each dot has to change the world.