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Mobile Money Opens Up New Opportunities for Mozambique's Small and Medium Businesses

Lynne Featherstone | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK Politics
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Lynne Featherstone

Mobile money means more small, safe, cashless transactions can happen - urban workers can send money back to rural homes; small shops and stalls can trade more and grow their business.

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Mobile: The Enabler

Andrew Dunnett | Posted 06.02.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Vodafone, M-Pesa, Telecoms, Mobile for Good, Mobile, Vodafone Foundation, Telecoms Sand Frontieres, Tanzania, UK Tech News
Andrew Dunnett

For the Foundation, the enabling bit began with both the smartphone revolution and the wider penetration of mobiles in to developing economies. Before then, enabling meant providing emergency telecoms in a disaster situation.

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The Death of Cash: Why the West Needs to Catch Up With the Mobile Payment Economy

Paul Broome | Posted 21.07.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Africa Economy, Mobile Banking, Kenya, M-Pesa, E-Commerce, Mobile Economy, Kenya Mobile Payment, Africa, UK Tech News
Paul Broome

While the West has been trying to develop the right platforms and technology for mobile payments to work, and technology providers and operators have been battling for mobile payment supremacy, Kenya has gone straight from a barter/gift/debt economy to digital transaction - leapfrogging over the last 100 years of the West's progress in monetary transactions.

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