Hivos and Hivos Partners

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

How can a wallet-sized plastic card with an embedded computer chip that can store data or process information increase security, save time and money and overcome limits caused by illiteracy, local languages or remote locations? Microfinance institutions working in the Bolivian highlands and in remote rural areas in Uganda have been experimenting with the use of smart cards for their clients and profit from the benefits of this state-of-the-art technology.

Misfa In Afghanistan

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

MISFA is committed to building a system that provides flexible, convenient and affordable financial services for poor people throughout

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

Microfinance In India

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

Building strong microfinance institutions entails improving governance, professionalising management, strengthening internal controls and accounting practices, and introducing low-cost ways of doing business

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

Online consultation and national debate on pension reform

The Department for Work and Pensions is using an online consultation, urging the public to have its say online on the future of the pension system and help to shape Government reform.

Global e-government 19 January

Over the last two years the Government has more than doubled its usage of freelance IT consultants, making it the largest employer of IT contractors in the country.

Creating digital trust through Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

[This article was published in the September 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

POWERTEL offers its country wide telecom network to support the e-Governance initiatives of Government of India and various state governments

7-9 July 2004, Mauritius:ICT stakeholder forum

[This article was published in the July 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The First Global ICT Stakeholder Forum with a special focus on Least Developed Countries (LDC)

ICT charter aims higher than black middle class

The black economic empowerment (BEE) charter on information communications technology (ICT) is not merely being implemented to create a black middle class but to ensure that South Africa becomes an information society through the bridging of the digital divide while increasing the number of participants in the economy, Advocate Dali Mpofu said on Tuesday.