India: SBI looking to sell products via e-Gram
India: SBI looking to sell products via e-Gram

Soon State Bank of India (SBI) will provide banking services through e-Gram project, the Gujarat Government-pioneered e-Gram project, which aims to provide e-Governance services in villages. SBI will provide checking of account balance, deposits, loans insurance and other banking services through the Internet.

Gtz  Rural Finance Programme with Nabard
Gtz Rural Finance Programme with Nabard

[This article was published in the May 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The low income, predominantly rural communities are finally becoming a key driver of technology innovations in a large part because of their sheer scale and the huge size of the market which remains to be tapped

Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs)
Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs)

[This article was published in the May 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The solution lies with new delivery channels that make innovative use of ICTs to inexpensively process a large volume of small transactions and deliver a wide range of financial services

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