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What you’re listening to: Our most popular digital financial literacy lessons
Around the world, we are focused on closing the gender gap in accessing digital technology and building women’s digital skills and digital financial literacy. Read on to learn about our most popular lessons.
‘Let’s keep the gender lens on’
We know the pandemic is disproportionately impacting women and will only widen the gender-poverty gap. As we celebrate International Women’s Day this week, we applaud the champions who are driving the conversation to make equity a priority, putting gender at the center of response efforts.
Announcing “Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!’
In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and the need to go cashless while observing social distancing restrictions, SIA, with funding from USAID and the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative, has launched a digital financial literacy campaign to increase women’s ability to access and use mobile money services.
Challenging the myths around women’s financial inclusion
Earlier this month, we joined FinEquity and Women’s World Banking for a webinar exploring common myths around women’s digital financial inclusion. Hosted as part of CFI’s Financial Inclusion Week, this discussion tested assumptions, highlighted the contextual differences and nuances that exist across half of the world’s population, and considered the perils of stereotyping this population when it comes to access and use of financial services.
Lighting up digital economies with clean energy
Technology advances are bringing prices down, for both off-grid solar and mobile phones, but the cost of purchase continues to keep these products out of reach for many. That is why enabling the financing of these purchases through expansion of DFS is more important than ever.
Reaching learners remotely: 5 things we learned in getting started with IVR
SIA has spent the past month seeking ways to use interactive voice recall technology to deliver digital financial service training to rural learners. This blog is a quick reflection on our adventure into pandemic-fueled IVR mania, and some lessons we learned that I wish I had known before we started.
What COVID-19 impacts on DFS are here to stay?
Everyone in the DFS realm is thinking about what COVID-19 means for digital ecosystems — today and in the long term. This week, we were pleased to organize and participate in a breakout session for the Global Digital Development Forum. Our compliments to TechChange, USAID, and all of the conference sponsors for pulling off a successful first virtual 16-hour global conference!
Operating at intersections of digital transformation & commerce during COVID-19
Operating at the intersection of digital transformation has become a deal breaker for many organizations trying to navigate the coronavirus pandemic, both in commercial and development spaces.