The history of Viamo
2022
50+ million digitally disconnected reached
Viamo has expanded to hold a record of 30 active projects with USAID. In the past two years, we have reached 50 million people previously thought to be unreachable, uncounted, and underrepresented. The number of people we’ve reached through the…
2020
Regional and partnership expansion
With the drastic interpersonal cutbacks and global lockdowns under the COVID-19 pandemic, Viamo stood poised to provide USAID partners with digital training, surveys, campaigns and marketing already operational and successful. Under this international constraint, Viamo expanded beyond Africa to Asia,…
2018
Released new Digital Training service
Viamo recognized the market’s growing need for more innovative approaches to training – particularly in international development with donors such as USAID. Traditional training or capacity building methods were being conducted in often remote, difficult-to-reach or maintain classroom settings. As…
2017
Two organizations combine talent and assets
VOTO Mobile (co-founded by Mark Boots, Viamo CTO, and Louis Dorval, Viamo COO) and Human Network International (founded by David McAfee, Viamo CEO) combined to form Viamo. HNI brought Digital Marketing and Digital Campaigns provided on a proprietary platform tool.…
2014
The first telecommunications partnership
VOTO Mobile integrated with its first telecommunications company, Airtel Ghana. This would become the first of more than 20 major telecommunications company partnerships for Viamo.
2012
The inception of VOTO Mobile
The first mobile survey was sent by then-VOTO Mobile in August 2012 in Ghana. It was effectively a failure and a fast lesson learned that then became the company’s strategic pillar. The only ones to respond to the survey in…
