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Quotable: India's race to emerge as the mobile money leader

India is probably the most exciting market for mobile money in the world. When India takes off, it will eclipse anything we’ve done in Kenya.

Social Enterprise

Shopping for all: Mobile technology as social enterprise

Many social enterprises are incorporating mobile technology into their businesses, making products more accessible to consumers around the world.

Mobile Technology

The Technology of Nonviolence: How cellphones and crowdsourcing are saving lives and livelihoods

Simple technology is quelling violent conflict in poor countries, and helping people make money as a result.

Mobile Technology

Short film: Uganda’s love of mobile money

In just over four years, 9 million Ugandans have jumped aboard the mobile money bandwagon-- buying, selling and saving with their mobile devices.

Financial Inclusion

Cash cows: Why making bank accounts function like livestock will help the poor

In an age of mobile banking and digital transactions, many poor people still shun basic banking services and put their extra money in livestock. Why?

Mobile Technology

Mobile health targets women, yet many don’t have mobile phones

Health care organizations say they can save lives by providing maternal health services via mobile phones, but they have to close the gender gap on mobile technology first.

Mobile Technology

Infographic: Which countries have more mobile money accounts than bank accounts?

Africa is showing the world how mobile money can help build economies.

Mobile Technology

Tools for tweets: How to stop harassment with online mapping

A nonprofit startup is trying to stop the pervasive harassment of women in Egypt using a revolutionary tool--the Internet.

Financial Inclusion

Day 1 at Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions

What’s the best way to deliver on the promise of mobile money to bring financial inclusion to the BoP? The Center for Effective Global Action hosted dozens of telecommunications, banking, research and mobile money experts to explore that question.

Value Chains

How to survive on less than five acres in India: Three ways farmers can go mobile

Smallholder farmers are overwhelmingly poor and have little control over the ups and downs of the marketplace. Three organizations are helping smallholder farmers turn the tables through mobile technology.