What we're learning in Bangladesh: women want mobile money too
A great piece on our experiences at BRAC in supporting women and girls to start using mobile money. And when they do, that can set bigger social changes in motion.....
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9 年Very good article!!
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9 年But mobile money has been around for quite long than Brac picked it up.. It's not a new thing to be proud of. mpesa by Safaricom in Kenya was launched first and all other countries are replicating the services!!
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9 年It’s rationale, indicators of inherent progresses.
Project Coordinator at City of Austin
9 年Glad to be a little part of it :)