Mobile App
Digital Technology Aims
Mastercard has launched a new digital marketplace for East African farmers to sellmore...
The World Bank's Consultative Group to Assist the Poor
CGAP estimates there are roughly 500 million farming households across the world that fall under the category of "smallholder" - made up of no more than a few hectares of land, and runmore...
Interview with John Sheldon
What's historically been used has been these middlemen arriving at the farm gate, or setting up marketplaces in local communities, where they're doing deals there and coming back later, andmore...
2Kuze Overview
"2Kuze" (pronounced "tuh-KOO-zay") works with existing mobile money systems like mPesamore...
Smallholder Farmers in East Africa
In East Africa, smallholder farmers trying to get the best price for their crops are often dependent on middlemen - agents, buyers and sellers who leave them with inconsistent and unpredictablemore...
2Kuze Capitalization
2Kuze capitalizes on the widespread use of mobile phones across Africa to conduct peer-to-peer monetary transactions, Mastercard says, and the program is intended to increase farmers'more...
Games
Reaching Those Outside the System
For 2Kuze, Mastercard is partnering with non-profit Cafedirect Producers Foundationmore...
Creation of a financial log or history as benefit for smallholder farmers
One indirect benefit for smallholder farmers is the creation of a financial log or history, which could prove helpful when they seek credit or loans to expand their farms. "Each bank hasmore...
IFC from World Bank group
IFC is a member of the World Bank group that finances and provides advice for private-sector ventures in developing countries. "IFC is working with partners like Mastercardmore...
Masercard Potential Revenue Models
IFC is a member of the World Bank group that finances and provides advice for private-sector ventures in developing countries. "IFC is working with partners like Mastercardmore...
Microsoft Competitors
Mastercard is not the first company to offer financial services to smallholder farmers in developing countries. Matthew Saal, head of digital financial services at the International Financemore...
Business
Diversity in Tech
NEW YORK — The tech industry brought us self-driving cars, artificial intelligence andmore...
Tech companies themselves tend to blame a "pipeline problem"
Tech companies themselves tend to blame a "pipeline problem", meaning a shortage of women and minorities with technical qualifications. But a number of academic experts, industrymore...
The Industry is Trying
Companies are spending a lot of time and money on improving diversity. Two years agomore...
Racial and Gender Diversity
In 2014, 2 percent of Googlers were black and 3 percent were Hispanic, numbers that have not changed since. The picture is similar at Facebook and Twitter . Microsoft is slightly more racially diverse (though not when it comes to gender) and Apple even more so, though still not reflective of the U.S. population.more...
Changing HR Stereotypes?
"The people who are doing the hiring are not changing their thinking around what they view as qualified," says Leslie Miley, engineering director at the message-service startup Slack.more...
Brands
Why It Matters
Diversity isn't just about fairness. It's about having designers who reflect the diversitymore...
When the Culture Doesn't Fit
Silicon Valley startups like to talk about "culture fit'' - in theory, the question of whether a job candidate's attitude and behavior meshes well with a company. In practice, though, it can mean that sincemore...
Into the Pipeline
Some 11 percent of computer science graduates were black and 9 percent were Hispanic inmore...
Such an Intractable Problem.
"I wonder if it is coming up against...the deep-seated belief that the people in these organizations are special and they want to keep out people who are not special,'' he says. "In our country,more...
