8villages

8villages provides social marketing solutions for businesses and public partners to link with rural populations. Its a social network specifically designed to enable efficient marketing in rural, developing countries. It offers corporate clients and public partners mobile (SMS, voice) and web solutions to better engage and dialog with rural consumers. Their greatest achievement is having succeeded in increasing farmers' income up to 22 times (2200%) in Indonesia. There are up to two million farmers that have already registered in 8Villages database. More than 40.000 farmers have joined the community platform (based on education and information), and more than 5.000 farmers are ready to do transactions through their e-commerce platform, there are up to 150 outlets that supply raw-materials directly from farmers.

Lead (category)

Private enterprise (Agritech startup)

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

8villages Pvt. Ltd (ICT company)

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Agrifood Services

Digital Social Services (Education, Health, Skills)

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Business and governance structure

Initiated by a private ICT company

DI ICT-deliverables format

Web-based platform

Interactive data exchanges

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Agribusiness / private organization

Farmers

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

There are up to two million farmers that have already registered in 8Villages database. More than 40.000 farmers have joined the community platform (based on education and information), and more than 5.000 farmers are ready to do transactions through their e-commerce platform, there are up to 150 outlets that supply raw-materials directly from farmers.

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Increased farmers income multifold in Indonesia.

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

All over Indonesia

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution