{"id":14349,"date":"2024-05-07T06:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/scaling-up-the-app-thats-transforming-lives-in-south-african-fishing-communities\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T06:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:37:37","slug":"scaling-up-the-app-thats-transforming-lives-in-south-african-fishing-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/scaling-up-the-app-thats-transforming-lives-in-south-african-fishing-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaling up: the app that\u2019s transforming lives in South African fishing communities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abalobi provides a real-time marketplace for fishers to sell their catch, while also monitoring fish populations, and the tech could go global <\/p>\n

The 59-year-old Wilfred Poggenpoel is a fisher from Lambert\u2019s Bay, a picturesque town 170 miles north of Cape Town that\u2019s popular with surfers and home to 17,000 breeding pairs of Cape gannets<\/a>. Five years ago, he made the decision to join a virtual marketplace called Abalobi<\/a>, which enables fishers such as him to sell their catch directly to restaurants, retailers and consumers using a custom-built app.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get a better price and I can sell more species now,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve bought a 60-horsepower motor that I\u2019d never have been able to afford before. I\u2019ve bought a second boat.\u201d He joined, he says, because he didn\u2019t want to spend all day walking around town in the sun trying to sell fish. \u201cMy quality of life has improved. I\u2019ve even been able to help some old people in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nAbalobi provides a real-time marketplace for fishers to sell their catch, while also monitoring fish populations, and the tech could go global
\nThe 59-year-old Wilfred Poggenpoel is a fisher from Lambert\u2019s Bay, a picturesque town 170 miles north of Cape Town that\u2019s popular with surfers and home to 17,000 breeding pairs of Cape gannets. Five years ago, he made the decision to join a virtual marketplace called Abalobi, which enables fishers such as him to sell their catch directly to restaurants, retailers and consumers using a custom-built app.
\n\u201cI get a better price and I can sell more species now,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve bought a 60-horsepower motor that I\u2019d never have been able to afford before. I\u2019ve bought a second boat.\u201d He joined, he says, because he didn\u2019t want to spend all day walking around town in the sun trying to sell fish. \u201cMy quality of life has improved. I\u2019ve even been able to help some old people in the community.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abalobi provides a real-time marketplace for fishers to sell their catch, while also monitoring fish populations, and the tech could go global The 59-year-old Wilfred Poggenpoel is a fisher from Lambert\u2019s Bay, a picturesque town 170 miles north of Cape Town that\u2019s popular with surfers and home to 17,000 breeding pairs of Cape gannets. Five …<\/p>\n

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