The long-awaited second part of PandemiCast XV is finally here. This episode, you will know from the trailer, is an insight into the #COVID19 pandemic in #Africa. Edited by Iknoor Kaur & featuring Francois Baird Simba Makoni Sheriff Bojang Jr. and Tandeka Nikiwane. Moderated by Mark CHATAWAY and Matshidiso Masire. You can watch it here. […]
PandemiCast XV, Part I: The view from Africa
The long-awaited fifteenth episode of PandemiCast is finally here – but it is in two parts. This episode, you will know from the trailer, is an insight into the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. In this special edition, you will hear from leading members of the Baird’s CMC network and its connections from across Africa. They […]
PandemiCast XV: A look at COVID-19 in Africa (Trailer)
The fifteenth edition of PandemiCast – the video podcast co-produced by Baird’s CMC, Hyderus Teoranta, and Health Issues India, takes a much different format than our regular programme. In this special episode, we explore the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. Friends of Baird’s CMC, spanning the breadth of its extensive African network, lend their inputs in […]
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 […]
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