Social Transformation Series

Can tech empower poor women and improve social inclusion?

The answer should be a resounding yes!  There are now more mobile connected devices in the world than there are people.  More than 4.5 billion people now use the internet, and  social media users exceed  3.8 billion,  mobile connects  71% of the world population.  300 million new users came online  in 2020, the majority from …

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We are the change we want to see

We have seen the tremendous acceleration of innovation during the Pandemic, especially in health care. There\’s a tremendous opportunity, but it is all about potential and not inevitability. We have the potential to drive transformational change hard. We have the measures needed to be seen around things like using Fintech for financial inclusion. We can now do real-time …

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Collaboration for Global Social Impact

I see the need for 5 sets of immediate collaboration to pave the way for digital transformation. 1.     Collaboration to help shape the technology. Technologists are often working in a vacuum advancing technology, with a limited understanding of different social, institutional, infrastructure and cultural contexts. For technology to work, it has to be …

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EMERGING MARKETS GOING FOR DIGITAL GOLD

Emerging markets are harnessing technology much faster and more enthusiastically than many developed nations because of: 1.      Size and scale of the market: In 2017, China and India had around 660 million and 400 million smartphone users, respectively. This compared with only 220 million in the US.  2.      Youth Demographic : …

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