Tripura Hires PwC to Audit its SWAN, Makes it India’s First Third Party Auditor of the Project

PwC (Price waterhouse Coopers) has become the third party audit (TPA) agency for Tripura SWAN (State Wide Area Network) for a period of five years. Selected by a limited tender process by Department of Information Technology (DIT), they have become India’s first third party auditor for the project.

Supportive payment systems

[This article was published in the June 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

A paradigm shift needs to occur in order to determine how the poor might be profitably brought into the banking sector.

Affordable telephone access for rural people in Rwanda

Grameen Foundation, a global non-profit organization that combines microfinance with new technologies to empower the world’s poorest people and Local GSM network operator, MTN RwandaCell are launching Village Phone Rwanda, an innovative new joint venture.