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> Posted by Michael Quesnell, Senior Manager, Sustainability, Nokia
This post is part of the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Expert Exchange: Building A Movement Toward Financial Inclusion by 2020, cultivating conversation around the goal of reaching full financial inclusion by 2020. For further questions about this series, write to , Fellow, Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion.
It was just a year ago that I was sitting on the floor of a tiny local community building in a small village about 90 minutes outside of Ahmedabad, India listening to 30 women tell me what they wanted from mobile technology. These women, all leaders with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), were on their game despite the fact that my agenda was to get insights into a financial literacy application I was helping design. They were shrewd, insightful, and knew exactly what they wanted and needed to improve their important rural work in microfinance and membership services…I was about to get schooled. Read the rest of this entry »
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