villageTell
GrameenPhone
You Can Hear Me Now
Village Phone Program
Cell Phone As Wallet
- Aryty (Philippines)
- CelPay (South Africa)
- CGAP - Mobile Phone Banking South Africa White Paper
- Chemomics
- FE-Mobile
- G-Cash (Globe Telecom)
- M-Banking Post (NextBillilon.net) 9/26/07
- M-PESA (Safaricom - Africa)
- MABS White Paper (Philippines)
- OneWallet (C-SAM)
- Smart Money (Philippines)
- TGT Mobile Plus
- UAE Exchange Wallet
- USAID Paper
- Yahoo News Article
VPP Countries
Native Entrepreneurs
Telcos at the BOP
Textual Non-Literacy
C.K. Prahalad
Key Contacts
Remittance Revolution
- IFAD Remittance Flows (2006)
- TGT Mobile Plus Remittance Program
- Migrants' Cash (Intl Herald Tribune)
- Productizing Remittances (ISI)
- Cash Transfers and Spending Categories (Slide 16) Kenya
- C-SAM Mobile Money Transfer Architecture
- Remittances.info
- Migrant Remittances PDF (2005)
- GSM Global Money Transfer Pilot
- MobileMoneyTransfer.com
- PaymentsNews GSMA Remittance Article
- 3GSM Global Remittance System Consortium
ESP Model
- 129 Min/mo Avg (MTN)
- Africa Mo ARPU $21
- Africa Mobile Stats
- Apple: 10% Rev Share from iPhones
- Carrier Metrics: ARPU, Churn & Net Adds (8/21/07)
- Electronic Communications Act 2005 South Africa
- ESP Definition
- ESP Model (VMSA)
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in South Africa
- Global Handset Rev Approaching $112 Billion
- Mobile Usage Stats
- Motorola C113
- Motorola's <$40
- MVNE Definition
- MVNO Definition
- Nokia APAC ARPU Stats
- SA Exchg Rate (1:R7.1)
Financial Institutions
World Bank Projects
Chuck Bentley's Links
Sierra Leone
March 19, 2008
All Reading
Reading (Most Recent)
George Friedman: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
Nicholas Carr: The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
David Weinberger: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Patricia B. Seybold: Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company's Future
Don Tapscott: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Henry Jenkins: Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Seth Godin: Small Is the New Big: and 193 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
Bob Seidensticker: Future Hype : The Myths of Technology Change
Jim Collins: Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
In The News
- Bill Gates Calls for Inclusive Capitalism That Would Serve the Poor (1/24/08)
- Econet to Roll Out 3G in Zimbabwe (1/24/08)
- Village Phone in Business Week (9/24/07)
- ITU: 4B Phone Lines (9/5/07)
- M-Banking/Remittances Phenom (NextBillion.org 8/30/07)
- Grameen Phone VPP Article in Fast Company (Sept 07)
- Simple Innovations, Big Impact - Tapan Parikh (8/17/07)
- Econet Expanding Capacity in Zimbabwe (8/6/07)
- SA & Botswana: Cell Phones Make Life Easier and Safer (7/22/07)
- CGAP - Mobiles Begin Calling Shots On Banking And Payments (2/1/07)
- CGAP Press Release (2/6/07)
- GrameenPhone IPO in 2008 (6/19/07)
- Mozambique Poverty Down 20% (6/25/07)
- Africa's Telecom Boom (6/15/07)
Microfinance Sector
NextBillion.net
- NextBillion.net
- The Next 4 Billion
- Case Study: Vodacom's Community Cell Phones (South Africa)
- Case Study 9.2 - Banking on Phones (Philippines)
- Case Study 9.3 - Virtual Banking "Wizzit" (S. Africa)
- Most Dramatic BOP Success Story is Mobile Telephony - Fastest in Sub-Saharan Africa!
- Impact of Cell Phones in Africa (Vodafone)
- Impact of Mobile Phones in the Developing World (Vodafone)
- (MTC) Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile Phones in the Arab World
- Wizzit - Cellphone Banking for the Unbanked (South Africa)
- Fortune at the BOP Alternative Perspective (Jaiswal)
