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Problematic Empowerment: West African Internet Scams as Strategic Misrepresentation
Information Technologies and International Development
Volume: 4 , Issue: 4 , Page: 15-30
Internet scamming strategies associated with West Africa typically involve the creation and deployment of fictional narratives depicting political turmoil, corruption, violence, poverty, and personal tragedy set in a variety of African nations.…
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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User Agency in the Middle Range: Rumors and the Reinvention of the Internet in Accra, Ghana
Page: 1-18
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Evaluating Shared Access: social equality and the circulation of mobile phones in rural Uganda
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Volume: 15 , Issue: 2 , Page: 230-250
This article examines forms of shared access to technology where some privileges of ownership are retained. Sharing is defined as informal, non-remunerative resource distributing activities where multiple individuals have a relationship to a…
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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Beyond Market Prices: Improving Productivity and Proftability of Small Farmers
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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Design Considerations for a Financial Management System for Rural, Semi-literate Users
In this paper, we describe the design process, results, and general observations obtained in designing a user interface for managing community-based microfinance institutions in rural India. The primary users studied were semi-literate village…
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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| 2009 |
Automating Internal Control at a Coffee Cooperative using Mobile Phones Improves Efficiency and Accountability
Page: 1-10
Agricultural cooperatives monitor the growing practices of their members through internal control systems, ensuring adherence to external certification requirements and quality standards. In this paper, we present the motivation, design and…
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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| 2006 |
Enabling Banking for Rural Communities Using CAM ICT Framework
Cab Calling
Volume: 30 , Issue: 2 , Page: 14-20
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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Automated Forms Processing and Paper User Interfaces for Data Collection from Village Microfinance Groups
Microfinance is defined as the provision of financial services to poor, disadvantaged and under-privileged members of society, particularly in developing countries. Since the success of the Grameen Bank in the late 1970s, microfinance has…
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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Designing an Architecture for Delivering Mobile Information Services to the Rural Developing World
IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Paper plays a crucial role in many developing world information practices. However, paper-based records are inefficient, error-prone and difficult to aggregate. Therefore we need to link paper with the flexibility of online information systems. A…
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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| 2005 |
CAM: A Mobile Interaction Framework for Digitizing Paper Processes in the Developing World
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
During our work with community microfinance groups in rural India, we found that paper plays a crucial role in many local information practices. However, paper-based record- keeping can be inefficient, so we need to link paper with the…
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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| 2002 |
Apex Institutions in Microfinance
Page: 1-35
The paper reviews the experience of national microfinance apexes--wholesale mechanisms that channel funds, with or without supporting technical services, to retail microfinance institutions (MFIs) in a single country or integrated market. The…
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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Microfinance Consensus Guidelines: Guiding Principles on Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance
Page: 1-81
Filed in (Social Sciences)
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| 2008 |
Economic Policy Options for a Prosperous Nigeria
Palgrave MacMillan
For three decades Nigeria missed its opportunities to use oil wealth for economic transformation. Since 2003 there have been remarkable efforts to reform economic policies across a wide range. The challenge is enormous and the process of reform…
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