The MasterCard Foundation and the IFC (a member of the World Bank Group) assembled key players in the financial sector to accelerate thrust for mobile financial services in Cote d’Ivoire. The occasion acknowledged the market’s immense potential, especially for increasing access to finance for low-income households, small-scale businesses and in hard-to-reach areas. Cote d’Ivoire has [...]

Mobile Money, the low-cost banking solution headed by MTN in partnership with The South African Bank of Athens, has displayed a double digit month on month growth as cell phone users clinch the speed and convenience of accessing a wide range of financial services directly from their mobile phones. Mobile Money takes this merging to [...]

The Family Africa Initiative is a faith-based organisation that aims to bring real hope for the future to thousands of people from previously disadvantaged groups in South Africa. Their holistic approach to welfare intervention reaches thousands of people every year. They run a day care centre for the pre school children of our HIV positive [...]

Mobile money banking products have been launched by telecoms company ranging from Econet Wireless’ Ecocash, Kingdom Bank’s Cellcard, Tetrad’s eMali, Cabs Bank’s Textacash, Interfin Bank’s Cybercash and CBZ Bank’s mobile banking, in order to positively impact the capricious economic environment that had reigned in Zimbabwe over the past decade. Over the past year there has been [...]

MasterCard and The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission announced that they would be rolling out 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with electronic payment capability as a pilot program, at the World Economic Forum on Africa. Recently administered under the National Identity Management System (NIMS), the National Identity Smart Card is the largest, of [...]

The Institute of Inventors and Innovators, the South African non-profit organisation established to assist inventors to commercialise their products, allows one to become a member at a fee of R100 (and free of charge for those under 25 years of age). Once a member, and are compelled to explore the potential of your own ideas, membership [...]

TEDGlobal is one of TED’s annual conferences. It has been held in Oxford, UK, in 2005, 2009 and 2010, and in Arusha, Tanzania, in 2007. TEDGlobal is now held annually in Edinburgh, UK, each summer. The themes of the global conference are somewhat more international in nature, but the full TED format is upheld. TED [...]

ECONET, the Zimbabwe’s leading telecommunications company, is fixed to become a crucial participant in the financial services sector – extending on its mobile money transfer business, according to new research outcomes. In a latest report, one of the country’s leading brokerage firms, IHSecurities predicted that: EcoCash (launched in 2011) would leverage on the limited access [...]

Dr Mutambara (Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe) was addressing delegates at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) – The International Business Conference, where he discussed the importance of identifying, designing and adopting national winning and empowering beliefs alongside a code that will allow the country to expand the social, political and economic status of our [...]

The Awethu Project is led by young South Africans who believe passionately in the New South Africa, envisioned by Nelson Mandela. Its founders are young leaders who had the opportunity to study at Harvard and Oxford although having gone to high school in Johannesburg. Upon working on Wall Street, they grew discontent that their country [...]