In March 2014, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report on climate change, which has been labelled a “call for action” by the chair of the IPCC as well as climate change scientists and governments around the globe. The report highlights a number of serious threats to the world unless […]
IPCC Report on Climate Change
In March 2014, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report on climate change, which has been labelled a “call for action” by the chair of the IPCC as well as climate change scientists and governments around the globe. The 32-volume, 2,600-page report arrives at sobering conclusions regarding the effects of […]
Mobile Money in Africa: Global Context (part 2)
In our previous post in this series, we took a look the role of innovation in the success of mobile based financial services, such as M-Pesa, in African countries. By contrast, the Western world has been marked by a safer, slower approach in recent years. It could appear as if the West has not seen […]
Mobile Money in Africa – Global Context
At Baird’s CMC, we have been closely following the progress of mobile phone based payment and money transfer services in Africa, which we predicted would be game-changing when they were first launched. In a recent series on this blog, we talked about M-Pesa, a mobile money service. With 17 million users in Kenya (more than […]
M-Pesa in Kenya: Lessons Learned
At Baird’s CMC, we have been closely following the progress of M-Pesa in Kenya – a mobile phone based payment and money transfer service we predicted would be game-changing when it was first launched in 2007. With 17 million users in Kenya (more than two-thirds of the country’s adult population) and 25 percent of the […]
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