DPO Group, Visa partner for e-commerce Program with Kenya’s Strathmore University

The Direct Pay Online Group (DPO Group), in partnership with Visa, announced a partnership with the Faculty of Information Technology at Strathmore University to provide an initiative, 10×10, which will provide free workshops for skills development in e-commerce and online payments.

“Workshops are designed to provide the students with the skills to build an e-shop and connect it to the online payments solution, for successful e-commerce environments,” Strathmore said in a press statement.

The DPO Group and Visa will provide support and a rewards programme for the developers where they will share 10 percent from all payment transactions from a website built by the developers and connected to the DPO payments solution for the first ten months, according to the statement.

“The DPO Group sees effective, high level e-commerce education as a key to the economic vitality in Africa.  Through access to education, our knowledge and support, we will enable vital skills development,” Eran Feinstein, the DPO Group CEO, said in a statement. “We want to support the professionalisation of the online payments industry, which in turn will yield better service to online merchants and better uptake of e-commerce services.”

“Developing successful e-commerce sites takes specialist skills,” added Feinstein.  “Those who sign up for the programme will get access to free technical support and access to a simple payments service platform which is safe and secure.”

“ For the youth in Africa to be able to benefit from an e-commerce future, there needs to be a much higher level of digital literacy,” Dr. Joseph Orero, Dean, Faculty of Information Technology at Strathmore University said in a statement.