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The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology to Reach the Poor with Microfinance

The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology to Reach the Poor with Microfinance. The Mobile Revolution One View of its Power in Microfinance by Martha Deacon Founder and CEO The Townships Project. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology to Reach the Poor with Microfinance. Four Wheel Drive

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The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology to Reach the Poor with Microfinance

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  1. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance The Mobile Revolution One View of its Power in Microfinance by Martha Deacon Founder and CEO The Townships Project

  2. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology to Reach the Poor with Microfinance Four Wheel Drive Mobile 2 October 2010

  3. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance Microfinance Limitations: 20% max voluntary; 80% necessity “whack-a-mole” jealousy; Too many doing the same thing Building assets & infrastructure The Unicycle

  4. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance Asset-Based Community Development Let’s use what we have to get what we want The Bicycle

  5. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance Third Wheel: Corporate Social Investment/ Enterprise Development The ABCD’d community seeks additional resources… The Three-Wheeler

  6. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance Fourth Wheel: Microfranchising and other commercial solutions Potential to systematize, replicate and brand a tiny business Four- Wheel Drive

  7. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance • Market information • Banking services • Money transfer • Repayments • Savings • Inventory restocking • Accounting • Training • Mentoring Mobile

  8. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance • Foundation is ABCD – a motivated community • Supported by Microfinance • & Corporate Social Investment • & Microfranchising and other commercial solutions • & Mobile Technology … Four Wheel Drive Mobile!

  9. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance Help make it happen! Four Wheel Drive Mobile!

  10. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance August 31 – September 2, 2011 Khayelitsha and Cape Town, South Africa (O.R. Tambo Recreation Centre & UCT Graduate School of Business) First International Microfranchising (and other commercial solutions) Trade Show and Conference

  11. The Mobile Revolution: Using Technology toReach the Poor with Microfinance Thank you! www.thetownshipsproject.org Working in South Africa; headquartered in Toronto

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