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Twitter Top Ten – 6-14-15
This week Twitter CEO Dick Costolo stepped down. His exit was expected, considering the pressure from Wall Street and from one of Twitter’s biggest investors Chris Sacca to make the service more user friendly. Until that day comes, we’re happy to curate our favorite Tweets of the week for you.
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Weekly Roundup – Walter Peck Had a Point: Why regulators and entrepreneurs sometimes have to ‘cross the streams’
There were plenty of supernatural bad guys in the movie Ghostbusters, but the villain you probably despised the most was the overbearing EPA agent Walter Peck. But while he may have been a jerk, his efforts to regulate the Ghostbusters were absolutely justified. We (somehow) tie the film to recent events in Uganda’s mobile money industry in this roundup.
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10 Key Issues Shaping Mobile Money in Africa: Takeaways from the Mondato Summit Africa
Africa is ground zero of the mobile money revolution, a rapidly developing and exciting – but often chaotic and confusing – space. Last week, some of the top names in the industry gathered in Johannesburg at the Mondato Summit Africa to bring some clarity to its present and future. We’ve put together 10 key takeaways from the event.
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Three Ways the Mobile Finance Ecosystem Can Reach the Next Level: Grameen Foundation takes a look ahead
Mobile finance has spread around Africa and the world, but many still live beyond its reach – especially in rural areas. And both technical and business challenges still make it hard to reach them. In the final post in their series on how microfinance can go digital, Grameen Foundation explores three ways progress will need to be made for the global mobile finance ecosystem to take the next steps.
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CSR in Practice: Creating business value and development impact in the WASH sector
Neil Jeffery, CEO of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor, believes the WASH sector affords opportunities for companies to create business value and generate lasting social impact at the same time – and points to five multinationals to prove it.
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Moving from Access to Inclusion: New CFI report takes stock of progress – and pitfalls – on the road to full financial inclusion
Can we bring financial services to the world’s 2 billion unbanked individuals by 2020? Accion’s Center for Financial Inclusion tackles that question in "By the Numbers: Benchmarking Progress Toward Financial Inclusion." The report explores both progress and challenges as the emphasis shifts from providing access to enabling active usage of financial services.
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Four Things I Learned About Surviving The Long Game of Social Enterprise
Parag Gupta, founder of Waste Ventures Charities, a non-profit, and for-profit Waste Capital Partners, recently asked a long-time social entrepreneur and investor what advice he would give now that impact investing had entered the mainstream. The mentor indicated that for a social entrepreneur to achieve the desired impact and reach a point of sustainability, it takes time – around 14 years.
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Humanitarian Disasters are Getting Worse – Can Cash Transfers Get Better?: Navigating the challenges of e-transfers
It’s not your imagination: natural disasters are getting worse. Humanitarian agencies often respond with cash transfers, and many are now exploring digital options to get these funds to recipients more quickly and securely. We spoke with Sara Murray of the E-Transfer Learning Action Network and Rosa Akbari of the International Rescue Committee about the challenges and opportunities of this new approach.
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