By the time my daughter Sayer was six years old, she had learned how to play games on our old Apple computer.
All in Digital
Digitizing the Kaleidoscope of Informal Money Management Practices
We need to approach the topic of microsavings with an entirely pragmatic, open mind.
Alternatives to Amazon
There are some great websites that are swimming against the current of consumerism. Here’s one, ...
Featured Article: Coming your way (like it or not) Digital Savings Groups
It's time to set aside everything you know about Savings Group bookkeeping, security, procedures and cash management. Open your mind VERY wide while you read this article.
Analog Groups - Going the Way of the Dodo?
If we are to believe the investment itch to fund all things digital, savings groups go the way of vacuum tubes.
Return to 'Tool vs. Machine'
I was reading Paul’s blog post Tool vs. the Machine and had a few thoughts.
Bitcoin Bites Back
In an earlier post, I tried, without success, to use bitcoin. Prior to writing that post, I was a believer in this new counterculture currency.
Bit Coin - A New Guest at the Roach Motel
Inclusionistas rest assured. You don’t need to know too much about bitcoin to know that it is not a financial inclusion option.
Tool vs. Machine
The essence of Savings Groups is not bookkeeping. In fact, bookkeeping is kinda a drag for most people...
Digital ID's and the Peer-to-Peer Alternative
I came across this discussion on the MicroSave website:
e-Recording Reaches Rwanda
It has been nearly five months since World Relief first attempted to pilot the e-Recording app in Rwanda.
Who's Gonna Save your e-Soul?
When we do things digitally, we leave behind us a sparkling trail of data.
E-Recording Reaches Rwanda! (pt. 1)
World Relief decided to start piloting the e-Recording app in Rwanda.
Paul Buys a Dumb Phone
As a traveling American, I face the insane roaming costs of the US telephone companies, and so I use the work-around of having a local phone and swapping SIM cards in each country
Alex Counts at the FI2020 Global Forum
WE thought his remarks about how to do technology right were so pertinent that we copy them here.
No More Tears
The savings group sector spends a remarkable, and depressing, amount of time recording, collecting, verifying, consolidating, reporting, and analysing data.
Power and Technology Take a Turn for the Worse
And besides, the chilling subtext of his request was, “Help us, we are frightened.”
M-Money - Convenient or Costly?
Despite the hyping of mobile money, on a visit last fall to Tanzania, I barely saw evidence of M-PESA
In Defense of Payments
...savings are transactions-in-waiting. People's aim is not to save or get into debt, what they want is to buy a bicycle, pay school fees, repair their home, or build up a reserve for medical emergencies.
What If? Mobile Financial Services and Freedom from Cash
Cash killers discuss...