Feb 8 2012 in Mobile Money by GBI Portal
Within the last month, there have been multiple new examples of mobile phones being leveraged to expand financial services in developing nations. With the popularity and quick success of M-PESA in Kenya, there was a push to copy the model in other developing countries. But it has been realized that the M-PESA model cannot be [...]
Tags: Abt Associates, AirTel, Bolivia, india, Kenya, m-pesa, madagascar, mbanking, Mexico, mobile banking, mobile money transfers, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, USAID, Western Union
Aug 22 2011 in Asia, Connectivity, Mobile by GBI Portal
U.K. startup Movirtu has announced plans to help 3 million or more people in developing countries gain access to mobile services by giving them personal phone numbers – not phones. Movirtu plans to work with a U.N.-affiliated initiative called Business Call to Action (BCTA) to offer the numbers which will be called “mobile identities”. The [...]
Tags: Cloud Phone, madagascar, Mobile Phones, movirtu
