{"id":46253,"date":"2022-07-28T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/airtel-money-launches-open-apis\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:38:06","slug":"airtel-money-launches-open-apis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/airtel-money-launches-open-apis\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel Money launches Open APIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>API is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch which took place at Norrsken, the biggest start up hub in East Africa; Jean Claude Gaga, the Managing Director of Airtel Money said: \u201cWe are excited to embark on this new journey where we open our platform to Developers across Rwanda and the rest of the world as we strongly believe they will bring amazing innovations which will in turn contribute to our efforts as well as the<br \/>\nGovernment of Rwanda\u2019s focus on turning Rwanda into a Cashless economy with 100% financial inclusion.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is our first step in our focus on supporting Start ups to grow through Partnerships with us\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To access the AirtelMoney APIs, Developers and organizations will simply visit https:\/\/developers.airtel.africa\/home and follow the prompts. Incase of any query, they will simply contact the Airtel Money Support team at amopen.api@rw.airtel.com<\/p>\n<p>This launch comes as the closing event of the Airtel Money Month which kicked off on July 1st with the launch of the communication of the recently launched Interoperability between Airtel Money and MTN MoMo and was followed by other numerous activities during the course of the month which were aimed at showcasing the many innovations and services Airtel Money has been offering to its Customers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43484 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/image001_7_.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43494 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a6371.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43495 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a6511.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43496 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a6501.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43497 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a6398.jpg\" alt=\"This launch comes as the closing event of the Airtel Money Month which kicked off on 1st July.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43498 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a6373.jpg\" alt=\"The event took place at Norrsken. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43499 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_41a6380.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Airtel Mobile Commerce Rwanda Ltd has launched its Open Application Programming Interface (API) Platform which will enable developers and organizations to easily access and integrate Airtel Money APIs, hence embedding Airtel Money within their platforms to collect and disburse payments.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46253"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46253"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}