This annual gathering is intended to promote data innovations that “are making a measurable difference millions of lives” through humanitarian relief, development projects and conservation efforts. The event’s themes include
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MICROFINANCE EVENT: ICT4D (Information Communications Technology for Development) Conference; January 12, 2021; Virtual – NEW DATES AND FORMAT
The event had been scheduled to take place in Abuja, Nigeria, from April 21-23, 2020.
This conference will bring together approximately 900 delegates to explore the use of digital innovations to adapt to global challenges, such as providing humanitarian relief and building infrastructure to increase access to technology for poor people. Specific topics
MICROFINANCE EVENT: ICT4D (Information and Communications Technology for Development); April 30 – May 3, 2019; Kampala, Uganda
This event will focus on how technology can help meet the UN’s sustainable development goals. Although this year’s session titles have not yet been released, they will address topic areas such as Digital Financial Inclusion, Agriculture & Environment,
MICROFINANCE EVENT: ICT4D (Information and Communications Technology for Development); May 8 – 10, 2018; Lusaka, Zambia
Summary of Event: This event will address how technology can help meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Sessions will be themed around areas including Digital Financial Inclusion, Agriculture & Environment, and
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS: Mobile Finance – Indigenous, Ingenious or Both?
Originally reported in PCWorld by Ken Banks.
In Ghana, it’s popularly known as susu. In Cameroon, tontines or chilembe. And in South Africa, stokfel. Today, you’d most likely call it plain-old microfinance, the nearest term we have for it. Age-old indigenous credit schemes have run perfectly well without much outside intervention for generations. Although, in our excitement to implement new technologies and solutions, we sometimes fail to recognize them. Innovations such as mobile banking — great as they may be — are hailed as revolutionary without much consideration for what may have come before or who the original innovators may have been.
MICROCAPITAL STORY: MITs NextLab Innovates, Microfinance Benefits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began offering a new design course this year called the NextLab Initiative which focuses on catering mobile technologies to the needs of users in developing countries. The projects in the class are comprised of three to five students with multi-disciplinary backgrounds and involve partnerships with localized field practitioners and non governmental organizations (NGOs). Students with technically and socially viable prototypes may obtain funding to prepare their technologies for full fledged deployment into the real world. The primary goals of the course projects are: