Last night, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation that Jan Chipchase and Bill Maurer gave at Frog Design.  Jan, Panthea, and a team of field researchers set out to Afghanistan to study mobile money, the practice of banking and transferring money through mobile phones.  Fascinating presentation.  For a copy of the final report, click here.Bottom line -…See More

The next wave of innovation in mobile financial services will come from adjacent industries, such as healthcare, which are desparately in need of leveraging digital financial services beyond cash-based economies.  In a new World Economic Forum / mHealth Alliance publication, I researched the linkages between these Mobile Finance and Healthcare industries to define how they depend on one another and can become more effective by leveraging cross-sector synergies.  This publication can be…See More