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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

And the government of Bangladesh announced plans for a nationwide mobile payments system by early 2018.This This industry is growing rapidly because mobile payment services enable transform people’s ability to save their money securely and access it conveniently. Biometric data to enable government benefit transfers.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Senior Consultant, Slalom. Mia Blakstad. Senior Program Associate, The Rockefeller Foundation.

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First day in Davos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There are roughly thirty social entrepreneurs here at the Forum, headlined by such famous leading SEs as Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed of Bangladesh. The room was buzzing with ideas about improving society, and taking advantage of this precious opportunity to interact with the captains of industry and government leaders.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Myopia undoubtedly affects those at the furthest reaches of other supply chains too – someone stitching garments in Bangladesh for Primark may not know, ultimately, which company their labour serves. For algorithmic sorcery to remain the rarified precinct of data mystics and arbitrageurs, new kinds of economic blindness must be conjured.

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