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Gates Foundation's Ignacio Mas On eFinance in the Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

Ignacio Mas, Deputy Director of the Financial Services for the Poor Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, took time off from his hectic schedule at the recent GSM Alliance Congress in Madrid to speak to me over coffee.

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Goodbye, Western Union? Overseas Remittances Now ATM to ATM

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multi-National Corporations, Switzerland, Brooklyn, XO Machine, Technology, Western Union, Notebook Industry, Automated Banking, Vital Wave Consulting, Cell Phone, Singapore, Manhattan, Haiti Earthquake, Dr. Andreas Stehmann, Jurgen Samuel, Wincor Nixdorf, Evens Anozine, Cash Remittance Transfer, Classmate PC, Mobile Phone, Moneygram, One Laptop Per Child, Barcelona, Developing-Country Markets, Turkey, Philippines, Germany, Automated Check-Out, GSM Association, Brooke Partridge, Education, Intel, Sicap AG, Haitian Diaspora, Second-Order Impact, Queens, Cam, Connectivity, Healthcare, New York City, France, Fonkoze, Palo Alto, Un-Banked, Atm, Mobile Technology, Senegal, Cash Remittances, Ncr, Business News
Jim Luce

Cash remittances allow people living in cash-hungry countries to receive funds from friends and relatives in cash positive-countries. Before the eart...

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C.E.O. Brooke Partridge Helps Lead Technology Thought in Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, David Lehr, Santa Clara, Microsoft, Fortune 500, Cupertino, San Jose, Brooke Partridge, Xian Province Ministry of Commerce, Thought Leadership, Mexico, Chile, U.N. Foundation, China, New York, Apple Macintosh, Vital Wave Consulting, South Africa, Peru, Madrid, Palo Alto, India, Corporate Social Responsibility, Technology, Hp, Silicon Valley, GSM World Congress, Business News
Jim Luce

Brooke has been quietly moving behind the scenes for many years now helping technology companies strategize and tool up for successful revenue growth in emerging markets.

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