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

Global Giving

After studying his work for years, Muhammad Yunus—champion of financial inclusion, founder of microfinance, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize—is standing in front of me and a few dozen others in a bookstore. And the government of Bangladesh announced plans for a nationwide mobile payments system by early 2018.This

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Data is transparent because of social media, data visualization, and open data from governments – all helping us to usher a remarkable period in human history. The UN is a neutral platform, trying to learn in the ground, setting up labs in partnership with government. Why are we using data that is 3 years old?

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy. Is anyone studying diversity work or anti-oppression work here at Stanford? We are a 3.5

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