Digital Transformation
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Capital Musings Podcast Show
UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
2023
Capital Musings Podcast Show
The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) started its podcast show, Capital Musings, in September 2019 to platform individuals driving impact and change in the area of “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources to reduce poverty and support local economic development. All episodes can be found the Capital Musings website. While every […]
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Tool
Imfashanyigisho Y’ibigo By’ubwizigame Byo Mu Buryo Bw’ikoranabuhanga (DSG)
By Lauren Hendricks, Dennis Mello, Paula Rudnicka
Global Communities, Women for Women International
2023
Imfashanyigisho Y’ibigo By’ubwizigame Byo Mu Buryo Bw’ikoranabuhanga (DSG)
This version of the DSG Toolkit: Tools to Support Safe and Gender-responsive Digitization of Savings Groups translated from English into Kinyarwanda, consists of seven practical tools to support safe, effective, and gender-responsive digitization of savings groups. These tools include practical guidance for implementers and trainers across multiple aspects of digitization, such as: Each tool can […]
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Vendor and Product Showcase: DSG Technologies Advancing Financial Inclusion
Global Communities
2023
Vendor and Product Showcase: DSG Technologies Advancing Financial Inclusion
This virtual event, hosted on February 1, 2023 by Global Communities and the FAHU Foundation, explored a wide range of digital solutions designed for savings groups. Global Communities opened the Showcase by introducing the new and improved DSG Vendors and Products tool on the DSG Hub. Next, nine DSG vendors and innovators showcased their products […]
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Article
6 Reasons Your Digital Innovations Can Fail to Reach Adoption
By Laura Scanlon
ICTworks
2023
6 Reasons Your Digital Innovations Can Fail to Reach Adoption
The article discusses six key reasons why a digital innovation product or service would fail to become widely used. They are related to organizational structure and capacity, unrealistic expectations, magpie mentality, first impressions, measurement, and founder dependency. The article also offers suggestions to bolster adoption of digital innovations, including creating a roadmap to adoption, giving […]
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Training
VSLA Digital Training App
DanChurchAid (DCA)
2022
VSLA Digital Training App
The VSLA Simulation Game App, developed with funding from FAHU Foundation, offers an alternative approach to training people in the use of the VSLA methodology. It includes a simulation of a full VSLA cycle as well as video trainings in important elements of the VSLA methodology, all of which is based on the “Field Officer Training Guide” […]
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Research
Bridging the Divide: Skills for Digital Financial Equity and Inclusion
Devex and Visa
2022
Bridging the Divide: Skills for Digital Financial Equity and Inclusion
This report showcases data-driven insights on the ways in which digital financial services, skills, and trust impact equitable and inclusive participation in the digital economy. Findings in the report show that initiatives must address the knowledge, confidence and trust needed for individuals to use the technology and services more effectively; programs are most effective when […]
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Digital Savings Group (DSG) Toolkit: Introductory Videos
By Lauren Henricks, Dennis Mello, Paulina (Paula) Rudnicka
Global Communities, Women for Women International
2022
Digital Savings Group (DSG) Toolkit: Introductory Videos
This playlist contains eight videos introducing – and providing guidance on how to use – the “Digital Savings Group (DSG) Toolkit: Tools to Support Safe and Gender-responsive Digitization of Savings Groups,” published by Global Communities and Women for Women International in 2022. The playlist includes the following videos: Digital Preparedness Checklist Project Staffing Monitoring and […]
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DSG Vendors and Products
By DSG Hub
Global Communities
2022
DSG Vendors and Products
The "DSG Vendors and Products" tool helps savings group actors identify the range of digital solutions available to fit their digitization needs.
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Brief
Scaling Up Access to Finance in Kigoma, Tanzania
UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
2022
Scaling Up Access to Finance in Kigoma, Tanzania
Under its global strategy of Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Era, the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) promotes digital financial services (DFS) as foundational to inclusive social and economic development. In Tanzania, UNCDF’s work under the Kigoma Joint Programme (KJP) highlights the evolution from financial inclusion to inclusive digital economies. KJP interventions […]
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Savings Groups in the Digital Era: Promoting Gender-Responsive & Inclusive Digital Transformation
By Paula Rudnicka & Dennis Mello
Global Communities
2022
Savings Groups in the Digital Era: Promoting Gender-Responsive & Inclusive Digital Transformation
This presentation, featured at the Financial Inclusion Week 2022 organized by the Center for Financial Inclusion, explores key gender and inclusion considerations in the digital savings group (DSG) space and showcases new resources to support safe, inclusive and gender-responsive digitization of savings groups. These include the DSH Hub and the DSG Toolkit published in 2022 […]