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Safaricom's M-Pesa turned basic phones into bank accounts across Kenya. A landmark Science study found it lifted 194,000 households out of poverty; …
Togo built a fully digital, mobile-money cash-transfer system using satellite imagery and phone data to target its poorest citizens during COVID-19, then …
"With Purpose" is a Nordic initiative aimed at diminishing the gender gap in entrepreneurship by supporting female entrepreneurs with the necessary tools …
Since 1992, the Vietnam Women's Union has organised village-level Savings and Credit Groups channelling collateral-free loans to rural women via its TYM …
A train-the-trainer cascade - 21 WFP partner organisations to community mobilisers - delivered two rounds of mobile-money and digital-literacy training to over …
Since 2011, Mercy Corps' Gaza Sky Geeks has trained over 60,000 Palestinian youth in coding, freelancing and startup skills through Code Academy, …
Launched in 2010, Vodafone Fiji's M-PAiSA mobile wallet became the country's leading digital-payment channel, reaching 632,123 users (two-thirds of Fijians) by 2022. …
In a country with almost no formal banking sector, Hormuud Telecom's EVC Plus mobile-money service reached roughly three-quarters of Somali adults and …
Indonesia's government-run digital training marketplace reached 14.3 million low-income adults in all 34 provinces by 2022; 65% opened their first e-wallet or …
Smart Open Lisboa (SOL) is a startup program focused on the validation and integration of innovative solutions meant to upgrade the citizens’ …
Erhvervshus Hovedstaden is one of six regional business houses in Denmark. At Erhvervshus Hovedstaden, they help more than 5,000 companies to grow …
Going for Growth is designed to support women who are serious about growing their businesses and are the owner manager of a …
Farmerline's voice-first Mergdata platform delivers weather, market-price and agronomic advice plus digital credit to over 2 million smallholder farmers in 50 countries; …
Since 2020, Central African Republic's government has paid civil servants' salaries via mobile wallets instead of requiring travel to Bangui banks, reaching …
UN Women and the Orange Foundation built Women's Digital Centers at Peace Huts in rural Bong County, Liberia; 45 women graduated a …
El Salvador launched Chivo, a digital wallet with a $30 sign-up bonus, as a financial-inclusion tool for its majority-unbanked population when Bitcoin …
USAID and the Gates Foundation seeded Haiti's mobile-money market in 2010 with a $10m milestone-prize fund. Digicel's MonCash grew to 805,000 active …
A BMZ/GIZ partnership with Orange Cameroun trains disadvantaged youth in coding, hardware and entrepreneurship, extending digital skills into Cameroon's under-connected regions; over …
Vodacom's M-Pesa mobile money platform, revitalised through a 2018–2022 IFC partnership that tripled active users from 1.9 to 6 million, now serves …
A 1,200 m² hub in Abidjan's Plateau district combining a free coding school, a solidarity FabLab, a startup accelerator and an investment …
Estonia's largest science park runs a startup incubator and themed accelerators (NATO DIANA, ESA BIC, AI, cyber) that have supported 600+ startups …
A 34,000 m² Paris campus hosting 1,000+ startups a year across 30+ acceleration programmes run with global corporates, anchoring the French Tech …
“Unleash Your Geek” was part of the previous mayor’s vision of “unlocking the community’s potential.” The Strategic Partnerships team in the city …
Invest Lisboa is Lisbon’s investment promotion agency. It's a one-stop shop for companies, investors and entrepreneurs looking to invest or set up …
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