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We are available year-round to respond to inquiries regarding partnerships, market research, and investment opportunities in Africa.

If Dots for sounds like the kind of impact you or your company are ready to drive, we invite you to join us. We are seeking to partner with impact investors looking for measurable social and economic returns, companies & innovators with ready-to-deploy digital services that can plug into our ecosystem, and partners committed to improving rural livelihoods and unlocking new markets. Together, we can accelerate the transformation of rural Africa, from disconnected villages to thriving,sustainable economies.

For decades, rural villages in Africa have remained disconnected from the rest of the world, with information shared only within the community and opportunities confined by geography. This isolation has limited access to education, jobs,financial tools, and even basic communication with the outside world. Dots for is breaking this cycle by building affordable local communication networks that extend digital access to underserved villages. Through our services, community members can buy smartphones and connect to Wi-Fi, access financial services, receive training and education content and tap into digital jobs such as AI annotation and remote work opportunities. Our marketplace empowers villagers to purchase essential equipment through flexible installments, while our credit scoring system opens the door to financial inclusion for those who have never before had a chance to build credit. Our work results in isolated communities becoming digitally empowered hubs where people can learn new skills, start businesses, increase their income, and improve their quality of life. By bridging the information and opportunity gap, we are not only connecting villages to the global economy but also ensuring that millions of people previously excluded from the digital age are given the tools to participate, grow, and thrive.

From Isolation to Connection

Our Approach

Through collaboration and innovation, our mission is to contribute to a world where development is not just a goal but a continuous journey towards a harmonious and more equitable society.

Development

It is a powerful force that promotes understanding, tolerance, and the creation of a supportive environment where diverse perspectives contribute to the achievement of shared objectives.

Cooperation

Whether it's financial aid or community projects, this simple phrase sums up the idea of supporting others to help them overcome difficulties and achieve their goals.

Support them

Everything we do is done to maximize the value delivered to our customers.

Everything for customers

Our Core Value

We treat everyone with respect and believe that each of them is a "Dot" with the potential to change the world.

Trust all "dots"

We create moments that make our hearts tremble as we pursue our beliefs.

Shake your heart

We must have a mission to prove the meaning of our existence through our own actions.

Prove your value to the world

We are not afraid to fall down. Failure is not failure if we have the opportunity to get up and learn.

Tumble first

We recognize that we don’t know what we don’t know, and we keep searching for a better world, continuing our adventure to expand it.

Be modest explorers

We question “well-known” problems and taken-for-granted assumptions, and act based on our own experiences and perspectives as those directly affected.

Stand on your feet

Dots for Inc. will change the lives in African rural areas through the power of technologies.

Dots for .

We live in a world full of possibilities, yet one vast region stands on the verge of significant transformation - rural Africa, holding immense potential

Empowering Rural Africa with digital innovation

In the villages of Benin and Senegal, and soon across many African countries with limited network infrastructure, children can now dream big

Unleashing the Potential of Rural Children

Our digital services empower all rural residents, including women, enabling them to build new products and embark on a journey of economic empowerment.

Transforming Communities

At Dots for, we believe that success is measured not just by our scale of business, but by our contribution to unleashing the constraints of rural Africa. This impact is our very reason for being. To share our progress, we have compiled our challenges and our sincere commitment to the community and environment into the Impact Report.

Impact Report 2025 (in brief)

Full Impact Report 2025

Our Impact

Dots for was founded in 2021 by Carlos Oba with a clear mission: to break the digital isolation of rural Africa by building the infrastructure and services that enable equal participation in the digital economy. What began as a bold idea has, in just five years, grown into a thriving network of 300 connected villages. By 2025, our work has expanded across Benin and Senegal, and into Zambia through a franchising system, proving both the scalability and adaptability of our model across diverse African markets. Alongside expansion, we have continuously strengthened our technology: from launching the first version of our d.CONNECT device, DC Box Origin, to developing the DC Box 2.0, expanding our marketplace, and enabling AI-based digital jobs that provide direct income to rural communities. Our growth has been fueled by the creation of a global partner ecosystem, bringing together leaders in digital services, financial inclusion, and employment opportunities such as Honda, Brother Industry, SoftBank, and Transsion Holdings, among others. These partnerships not only validate our model but also ensure that the solutions we bring to rural Africa are reliable, sustainable, and impactful. Today, Dots for stands as a trusted bridge between digitally invisible rural communities and the global digital economy. With connectivity, access to finance, work opportunities, and essential digital services, we are helping families and entrepreneurs in rural Africa unlock their potential and improve their quality of life.

Our Journey

Dots for uses a local communication network to build digital platforms for rural users who cannot access the internet. Through these platforms, we provide a variety of useful smartphone-based services, helping to close the digital divide and solve the challenges that rural communities face through the power of communication and technology.

Today, around 3.5 billion people around the world live in what is known as the digital divide — a state where individuals are unable to access or benefit from digital technologies and internet connectivity. Due to both economic and geographic barriers, they have been left behind by the wave of digitalization and access to communication networks. This situation has created a huge information and opportunity gap between rural residents and the rest of the population, which in turn has created a serious income disparity. In Africa, internet penetration remains below 30%. However, traditional telecom operators have little incentive to make large investments in infrastructure for these regions, where populations are widely dispersed and income levels are low. As a result, the digital divide continues to persist with no clear sign of improvement.

Bridging the Digital Divide: Closing the Information and Opportunity Gap for 3.5 Billion People Through the Power of Connectivity and Technology

Our Mission

Our News

Our Purpose

There are disadvantages that people have to tolerate by living in a rural area. Even if they choose to go to cities for job opportunities, they have to pay a high cost of living and live away from their family. Dots for Inc. exists to eliminate such disadvantages and build a world for everyone to choose where to live without feeling inconvenience.

Our ecosystem is designed around a simple theory of change: connect, empower, sustain. Each product builds on the last to unlock new opportunities.

Customers can purchase essential items, such as a motorcycle or sewing machine, through installments, making it easier to start new businesses with less financial burden.

Marketplace

Customers can access digital jobs, including AI data annotation projects, creating income without leaving their community.

Job opportunities

Users can gain new skills through training videos that help them start work, while also enjoying a variety of entertainment content.

Learning contents

Our printing services, including printing, scanning, and copying, are available directly in the community, so customers no longer need to travel far to access a printer.

Printing services

Community charging service providing reliable power for smartphones and other devices through our solar panel system. In addition to standard charging stations, a mobile power bank rental service is also available.

Charging service

Affordable smartphone access through flexible weekly payment plans, making digital tools accessible to rural communities. This removes the upfront cost barrier and ensures every user can participate in the digital economy.

Smartphone Installment Sales

Each of our services is more than a standalone product; together, they form a pathway out of the poverty trap. By installing DC Box and providing smartphones on affordable installment plans, customers can access tools through d.CONNECT. Our customers gain access to learning content, our marketplace, remote job opportunities, printing services, and charging services, ensuring that digital services remain consistently accessible. 
 
The result is a self-reinforcing cycle: customers gain skills and income, local businesses grow, spending power increases, and communities become more resilient and attractive for further investment. This is how our ecosystem translates technology into tangible improvements in livelihoods, local economies, and long-term prosperity.

Join the thousands of customers who have already transformed their lives through our integrated     digital ecosystem — increasing their income by up to 110x. With access to affordable connectivity, digital tools, and new income opportunities, you too can unlock skills, grow your business, and secure a better future for your family and community.

Revolutionary distributed wireless network technology that provides constant local connectivity in rural villages across Africa. Unlike conventional telecom networks, DC Box operates without reliance on large-scale base stations, enabling fast, reliable, and low-cost access to digital content and services in remote areas. Together with our web application d.CONNECT, it provides access to learning, commerce, and work opportunities that directly improve everyday life.

DC Box (Dots for Digital Hub)

Our web application provides access to vocational and entertainment content, a marketplace, and job opportunities. The app helps improve daily life in the community by making digital access practical, supporting everyday convenience and creating new sources of income. Designed to work seamlessly with the DC Box Wi-Fi network, d.CONNECT ensures that these services remain accessible even in remote areas.

d.CONNECT

d.Connect is a distributed wireless network technology that selectively transmits through multiple wireless routers in a distributed manner, unlike the conventional star network centered on a base station.
d.Connect will be installed in each rural village scattered across Africa, where the Internet communication network is still underdeveloped, using this technology, which is now in widespread use, to provide constant Internet access and various online services running on it.

The distributed wireless network technology "d.CONNECT"

To facilitate access to our d.Connect and better navigation for villagers, we sell them smartphone for which they are required to pay per week.

Digitalization of Rural Areas realized by "Smartphone Installment Sales”

Achieving digitization in rural areas hinges on the widespread availability of extremely affordable internet connections. By making these connections accessible at minimal cost, rural communities can harness the transformative power of digital technology to bridge socioeconomic gaps and drive inclusive development.

Digitization of rural areas achieved through the sale of the very low-cost internet connection

Our Solutions – How We Create Change

Updates

Carlos Oba

Rie Tonomura

Takuma Mikami

Moussa Sene

Constant Houndjo

Germaine Kagbotemi

Mariko Kosaka

Naoko Awa Yamasaki

Armando Daves

Edouard Adjou

Rockiath Adjoke Djibril

Romain S. Adjovi

Expédit Zinha

Jean De Dieu Houncanrin

Moufid Daouda

Merscial Raymond

Parfait Agossou

Nicresse Akowanou

Dots For Bénin would like to recruit three new members for the team on the ground in Dassa. We want at least two members to be resident in Dassa, and the third can come from elsewhere as long as he's prepared to go to Dassa to work.

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Originally, we had chosen green as our company color, but after entering the field, we noticed a pattern in the color of the walls and roofs of our customers’ houses, who live in rural villages.

We channel our innovative spirit to craft solutions that transcend boundaries and uplift lives in African rural areas. Our commitment to creativity fuels our endeavors to harness technology in unique and imaginative ways, fostering positive change and empowerment.

We measure change not just by connection but by improved lives.

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We are driven by a mission to utilize cutting-edge technologies to positively transform lives in African rural areas. With unwavering commitment and expertise, we strive to bring sustainable and impactful change through the innovative application of technology..

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Each figure represents a step toward resilient, self-sustaining rural economies.


Dots for has been selected as a finalist for the Tech for Change Award to be held at Viva Tech 2026.
Dots for has been selected as a finalist for the "Tech for Change Award," which is given to innovative companies that change society, at "Viva Tech 2026," one of the world's largest tech festivals to be held in France next month. The Tech for Change Award is an award aimed at shining a spotlight on startups that place realistic changes in the fields of environment, society, and health at the core of their business models, and the ceremony will be held on June 17.

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Selected as a Finalist for the Tech For Change Awards at Viva Tech 2026