Articles by Nathan Wyeth
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
March 7
2012Big Idea: Why Hands-On Regulation of Mobile Money Could Be Dangerous
There’s a very simple imperative driving the tariff structure and every other decision that determines access to mobile money: cost recovery. This is more than a cold-hearted calculation by mobile network operators’ accountants. If rural mobile money agents, who generally operate as independent contractors, cannot profit from this role, there will be no rural agents and no mobile money service.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Friday
December 31
2010The Best Ideas of 2010 – iHub Nairobi
The Nairobi technology community is small, but it’s also behind some of the most exciting examples of realizing the potential of mobile technology in development. The iHub in Nairobi a clubhouse for innovators in the hotbed of mobile innovation that’s most relevant to the majority of mobile phone users in the world.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Friday
November 19
2010After the Dust Has Settled… Enduring Hybrid Value at CGI
At the end of September, and for the second year in a row, I found myself in the hype and occasional motorcade-induced street closure that is the Clinton Global Initiative. After five years, is CGI living up to its story of creating action, not conversation, and sparking new collaborations between industry and the NGO sector?
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Friday
July 16
2010Hot Opportunities – Career Center Roundup
There have been a slew of exciting job postings in the past couple weeks with organizations working literally around the world, so we wanted to take a minute out of our regular blog schedule to highlight a few:
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Friday
June 18
2010Report from the Mobile Money Summit (Part 3) – Learning from Agent Networks
At the GSMA’s Mobile Money Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of May I got a snapshot of this fast-evolving industry. Both inspiring and relevant far beyond the mobile industry is the rapid creation of networks of thousands of network agents bringing these services to remote and marginalized communities.
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Wednesday
June 16
2010Report from the Mobile Money Summit (Part 2) – Product Innovation to Reach the Poor
At the GSMA’s Mobile Money Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of May I got a snapshot of this fast-evolving industry. Beyond the creation of new mobile money platforms, the next step is creating products that are relevant to the poor, and for service providers to the poor to get on those platforms as well.
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Monday
June 14
2010Report from the Mobile Money Summit (Part 1): State of the Industry
At the GSMA’s Mobile Money Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of May I got a snapshot of this fast-evolving industry. With the initial success of mobile money services incorporating the poor in places like Kenya, the Philippines, Brazil, things are just getting started.
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Thursday
May 20
2010Looking for Killer Apps at Lighting Africa 2010
At the World Bank/IFC Lighting Africa Conference in Nairobi, some numbers are looking good for a change. There are still 1.6 billion people without access to electricity, but solar lantern distribution is projected to grow at 25-40% rates over the next 5 years in Africa.
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