by Brett Matthews | Mar 16, 2017 | Design, Microfinance, Numeracy, Orality, Technology
“Make memory unnecessary: put the required information in the world.” Don Norman. The Design of Everyday Things Background In 2012, on the invitation of Stuart Rutherford, a wise mentor I was fortunate to meet early in my career, I visited the rural SafeSave...
by Brett Matthews | Feb 13, 2017 | Design, Microfinance, Numeracy, Orality, Uncategorized
Building on research in Oral information management tools (2014), My Oral Village announces the publication of new research into oral cognitive capabilities and practices as they affect financial inclusion. The paper, entitled Oral financial numeracy: a hypothesis and...
by Brett Matthews | Dec 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Oral Financial Numeracy in Tanzania: An Exploratory Study is a vital milestone for My Oral Village in our fight for global financial inclusion. Financial practitioners have long assumed that even illiterate people can read and use numeric information....
by Brett Matthews | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
As part of a larger study of oral financial numeracy, My Oral Village conducted a study of numeracy among 80 illiterate adults, mostly female users of financial services, in Cambodia and Tanzania in 2015. This 5-page Briefing Note summarizes the results of the study,...
by Brett Matthews | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
In collaboration with a management engineering team from the University of Waterloo, My Oral Village has completed a financial numeracy app designed for use by savings groups. The first version, based on field research in Tanzania, is ideally adapted for use in East...