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Quotable: Internet for the next 5 billion people

Will extending Internet access to the world's poorest solve all social problems? Yunus and Zuckerberg think so.

Mobile Technology

Quotable: How cell phones fill in for failed governments

Wherever governments are in crisis, in transition, or in absentia, people are using digital media to try to improve their condition, to build new organizations, and to craft new institutional arrangements. Technology is, in a way, enabling new kinds of states.

Mobile Technology

Testing the future of emergency assistance

A quiet revolution is underway to streamline the delivery of assistance to people in crisis — using the most prolific technology in the world. And it could help people become more financially literate and secure for the long-run.

Financial Inclusion

Time to let loose? Why lawmakers should ease up on mobile banking rules

Tight regulation may be holding mobile banking back where it’s needed most.

Mobile Technology

No app for that: Why tech won’t solve global poverty as intended

Social entrepreneurs have trumpeted apps and technology as the knockout blow to poverty, but they may not provide the punch needed to make a lasting impact.

Financial Inclusion

Bank Andara: A bank for banks in Indonesia grows micro businesses and turns a profit

The first of its kind, a wholesale bank called Bank Andara has been making tech-savvy banking services available to the Indonesian microfinance sector for four years, now achieving a profit.

Mobile Technology

Quotable: Grameen Intel CEO believes in leading with education, not technology

Although Grameen Intel is a social business that aims to use technology to solve social problems, especially in agriculture and healthcare, its CEO emphasized the role of education in addressing the world's toughest challenges.

Financial Inclusion

Teachers in Afghanistan to receive salaries to their mobile wallets

Afghani public school teachers--mostly women--will start receiving their salaries directly to their mobile wallets, bypassing the decades old problem of corruption and inefficiency.

Mobile Technology

Free life insurance with your phone bill? Ghana's Tigo tries it

With so many African mobile users switching out SIM cards on a daily basis, how do mobile companies keep their customers loyal? By offering free microinsurance products.

Financial Inclusion

Seeking Opportunity in Unlikely Places: Mercy Corps' Elizabeth Berthe

Elizabeth Berthe, Mercy Corps’ newest social innovations team member, has been creating businesses with her dad since she was eight years old. "You know how some people flip houses? We flipped businesses.”