On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:26:02PM +0530, Surabhi Tomar wrote:
I just got back from Rwanda and Uganda, and systems like this (including
m-Pesa itself) are ubiquitous. However there are some interesting risks
associated with
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/04/the-invisible-bank-how-kenya-has-beaten-the-world-in-mobile-money/
The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money
Posted by Ken Banks of National
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One important factor was - the mobile provider who promoted m-pesa was
partially owned by the government - and a significant chunk of the
company was (and is ) owned by a clique of political power brokers
An important factor for people to buy into this technology at a wide
scale. Else they'd
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