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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 Biometric data to enable government benefit transfers. That’s how many residents of India have enrolled in the world’s largest biometric identification system. 1,171,000,000.

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Benetech Analyzes Key Bangladeshi Human Rights Data

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In my recent blog postings, I documented personal impressions during my recent trip to Bangladesh. Silva's analysis presented in the report, " Judge, Jury, and Death: Torture and Executions by Bangladesh's Elite Security Force." This post takes a look at how Benetech is helping to document human rights abuses in that country.

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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. Eric manages the Food and Climate Justice Unit at Oxfam America, part of the Food Systems Unit. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Senior Consultant, Slalom. Eric Munoz.

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Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

Government has a rich legacy of social entrepreneurship. as well as the national governments of much of the developed world, robustly practices variants of high-capacity governmental social innovation today, such as the myriad programs countering the global Great Recession. As always, we welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions!

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Blockchain Explained: Risks And Opportunities For Philanthropy

Global Giving

What if societies could use a shared public record of election results to confirm that an election was carried out fairly instead of having to trust an opaque government-run commission? This is particularly critical when these services are developed and tested on people who are already facing major risks, like Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

The drone then drifts over the home of someone who has just logged onto the site Scale, which sources workers across the Middle East and Latin America to label images used to guide automated drones systems. Vendor management systems (VMSs) add a further layer of opacity to already murky chains of outsourcing.

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