Insights
Announcing “Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!’
In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and the need to go cashless while observing social distancing restrictions, SIA, with funding from USAID and the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative, has launched a digital financial literacy campaign to increase women’s ability to access and use mobile money services.
Lighting up digital economies with clean energy
Technology advances are bringing prices down, for both off-grid solar and mobile phones, but the cost of purchase continues to keep these products out of reach for many. That is why enabling the financing of these purchases through expansion of DFS is more important than ever.
Operating at intersections of digital transformation & commerce during COVID-19
Operating at the intersection of digital transformation has become a deal breaker for many organizations trying to navigate the coronavirus pandemic, both in commercial and development spaces.
Going cashless in the era of the coronavirus
Digital transactions are on the rise in the era of COVID-19. Using mobile money is no longer just a matter of convenience or security — it’s a matter of protecting your health.
‘I’ll buy eight tomatoes — I’m paying with mobile money’
Convincing agri-enterprises that sell inputs to, or buy crops from, rural communities to embrace digital payments is seen as a potential path to de-throning cash — the undisputed king of commerce in emerging markets.