Project The Grameen-Obopay Bank A Billion Initiative, announced in August 2008, paired mobile payments company Obopay with Grameen Solutions to deliver affordable mobile banking, including cross-border remittances, money transfer, payments, savings and credit, to a billion of the world’s poorest people by 2018. The partnership planned to launch first in Mumbai, India and in Bangladesh … Continue reading Obopay
Project Village Phone Direct (VPD) is an innovative, microfranchise approach to Village Phone that allows virtually any microfinance institution (MFI) or other organization to directly and independently develop a Village Phone product for their clients. Village Phone Direct brings the benefits of telecommunications to local communities and micro entrepreneurs without the need for an institutional … Continue reading Village Phone
Project CellBazaar is a mobile classifieds and trading service from Bangladeshi operator Grameenphone that lets subscribers buy and sell goods and services over their phones. Sellers post an item’s details through the service and interested buyers get in touch directly to negotiate and arrange collection, effectively turning CellBazaar into a marketplace where buyers and sellers … Continue reading Grameenphone CellBazaar
Project Pesinet is a preventive child health project in Mali that uses mobile phones to catch illness in under-fives before it becomes life-threatening. Local staff visit families regularly and use a Java application on their phones to send infants’ weights and symptoms such as fever to pediatricians, who can flag children at risk and arrange … Continue reading Pesinet Infant Mortality
