{"id":1612,"date":"2021-05-31T09:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reloadly.com\/blog\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2021-10-05T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T10:39:18","slug":"phone-survey-ikapadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reloadly.com\/blog\/phone-survey-ikapadata\/","title":{"rendered":"As Covid-19 Struck, This Research Company Shifted to Phone Surveys Via Global Airtime Incentives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan Schenk is used to conducting surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa, but the onset of Covid-19 lockdowns presented some immediate new challenges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In-person surveys were now out of the question. Instead, <\/span><b>airtime incentives<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would somehow have to be delivered to phone survey participants in Nigeria, even though Jan\u2019s team operates out of Cape Town, South Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delivering airtime incentives was nothing new, but finding a reliable airtime API that could <\/span><b>simultaneously deliver mobile top-ups across multiple countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was now an urgent necessity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan and his team at<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ikapadata.com\">ikapadata<\/a> (Ikapa being the isiXhosa word for \u201cCape Town\u201d) were faced with finding an airtime API provider with a vast telecom operator that would include not only all of Nigeria\u2019s main telcos, but also other major international operators for upcoming global phone survey projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We did have a service provider for airtime incentives for South Africa already. But we never had anything like that for other countries,\u201d Jan recalls. \u201cAnd since we do work across borders, we do surveys of multiple countries at the same time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is when Jan discovered that Reloadly\u2019s airtime API offered access to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/operators.reloadly.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over 800 mobile operators worldwide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including all of the top telcos in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/operators.reloadly.com\/mtn-glo-airtel-9mobile-nigeria-airtime-api\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nigeria<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUntil now, we couldn&#8217;t do what we&#8217;re doing. <\/span><b>Now we can do it all centralised through Reloadly. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of having to look into different service providers for different countries, you can do it through one API, which saves a huge ton of time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quickly distributing airtime incentives across borders<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founded in 2011, ikapadata became the \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the first market research provider specialised on townships in South Africa,\u201d Jan says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the very beginning, <\/span><b>mobile data collection <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was the medium that Ikapadata wanted to use to make their research projects stand out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cInstead of pen and paper, we would be using tablets and mobile phones to capture the data. At that time, it was still relatively new,\u201d Jan remembers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, for ikapadata, prior to the pandemic, most of their research was conducted face-to-face on mobile tablets and devices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn the past, it used to be face-to-face surveys, like household surveys,\u201d says Jan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then Covid-19 struck, and Ikapadata was requested by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/researchictafrica.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research ICT Africa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a think tank, to collect data on internet usage increases during the pandemic-enforced lockdowns. Due to health restrictions, this information could only be collected over the phone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe shifted to phone surveys, doing it\u00a0 telephonically, and<\/span><b> we used Reloadly to distribute incentives<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d says Jan. \u201cSo at the end of the interview, like our face-to-face surveys, we would give the participants the option of getting airtime as a thank you for participating in the survey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe did that in South Africa and Nigeria. And using Reloadly we could use the same setup in both countries.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One endpoint, over 800 mobile operators\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An international research company like ikapadata prizes technology that enables them to incentivize their global surveys with ease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vast mobile operator network that Reloadly provides helped ikapadata do just this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe main thing that initially drove us to Reloadly was the fact that <\/span><b>they had a wider reach<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and they already had a presence in Nigeria, which was a country that we were going to do work in,\u201d said Bruce Mkhaliphi, data scientist at ikapadata.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fact that Reloadly\u2019s API acts as an airtime aggregator, bringing together networks and resellers to cut costs and pass on the savings helped Bruce and his team win on discounts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With our previous service provider, we paid the exact fee of the incentive plus the management fee. With Reloadly, since your platform is selling airtime to resell it, based on those discounts, <\/span><b>we&#8217;re actually paying less<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d said Bruce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transparency in FX rates was also a big, new perk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cReloadly gives us access to how the exchange rates work, as far as to be able to do our own exchange rates for us to communicate what respondents will receive in each particular country,\u201d added Bruce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This transparency also gave ikapadata the ability to clearly manage how they top-up the phones of their field researchers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe other use case for Reloadly airtime is the field workers, and that can be up to 100 to 200 people at a time. They often also need airtime and data to make phone calls in the field, and we can use the Reloadly API to also distribute that in a smart way without having to send them one at a time,\u201d says Jan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incentivizing MasterCard survey participants, no matter where in the world they are<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ikapadata recently launched a survey project with the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MasterCard Foundation, which wanted to question alumni of the scholarship programme the organization runs in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The challenge? While the alumni come from four different countries &#8212; South Africa, Senegal, Cameroon and Rwanda &#8211; the alumni have since dispersed throughout the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA lot of these alumni don&#8217;t even live in those countries anymore, or even on the continent,\u201d said Jan. \u201cSo now we will be doing our phone survey and email survey with people all across the world, and, again, it helps that we can still offer them an airtime incentive, even though they&#8217;re dispersed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through <\/span><b>only a few lines of code<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, these kinds of large international incentives projects have become easier to set up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cReloadly\u2019s API is well documented. So developers will just have to go read through the documentation. And actually, this spells out everything,\u201d says Bruce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Airtime incentives &#8212; an in-demand reward that isn\u2019t going anywhere<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even before the pandemic, airtime incentives were incredibly popular. Now, Jan has noticed, they are here to stay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have been doing it since 2011, and I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s going to become standard,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is especially true in the African context, where airtime is almost like a separate currency or like a parallel currency where people really see the value. In South Africa, <\/span><b>it makes little difference whether you give someone cash or airtime<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because people spend so much money on airtime anyway that if you give them the airtime it feels like real money,\u201d he observes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo in that sense, for gratification or incentive models, <\/span><b>something like Reloadly is extremely useful<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because you don\u2019t have to go through a financial institution or a fin-money,\u201d Jan adds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With fintech money providers can be \u201cnice,\u201d Jan says, it is also quite tricky to implement a novel incentives model using these technologies that would be as well-received and easy to distribute as airtime equity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAirtime just makes it much easier to distribute something of value,\u201d he 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