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Grameen, Gates Foundation eye mobile technology for development - Post Tech. SEATTLE--The Grameen Foundation has lifted some of the world’s poorest through lending circles dealing in the smallest amounts of money. Now it is trying to use mobile phone texts, cloud computing and software to scale its successful microfinance model to reach more people around the globe. Many of the tech ideas behind that vision are being formed here, in an office building off downtown Seattle’s bustling Belltown area. In their 10th floor suite, two dozen former high-tech industry workers are using the skills they honed at Microsoft, Oracle and McKinsey for global development. They have created mobile phone and Internet applications to warn farmers in Uganda of banana crop rot, remind pregnant women of medical checkups, keep microlending programs in check through cloud-based applications and use Web-based data to make sure their program are working.
“Tech is an enabler, not the end goal. Grameen is one of several organizations, including the World Bank and the U.S. 3GSM: les opérateurs visent le transfert de fonds par mobile. Et si les téléphones portables facilitaient la circulation mondiale de fonds? La GSM Association (GSMA), qui représente 700 opérateurs de téléphonie mobile dans le monde, en partenariat avec... Et si les téléphones portables facilitaient la circulation mondiale de fonds? La GSM Association (GSMA), qui représente 700 opérateurs de téléphonie mobile dans le monde, en partenariat avec MasterCard, a annoncé à l'occasion du 3GSM World Congress de Barcelone le lancement d'un projet destiné à faciliter l'envoi d'argent via son mobile.
But de la manœuvre: permettre aux migrants d'envoyer de l'argent, grâce aux réseaux de téléphonie mobile, à des proches qui ne possèdent pas forcément de compte en banque.