My Oral Village announces the publication of Road Signs for Digital Payments, Stage 2, an account of the latest work in our collaboration with Taler Systems SA, funded by the NL Net Foundation. With the capable support of the New Salone Woman Organization and the New Salone Design Company, our implementing partners in Sierra Leone,…

A key milestone is the  Roadsigns project was completed yesterday in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, when New Salone Woman Organization, under the guidance of My Oral Village, conducted usability testing on three key OIM features: account history, merchant payment and the learning sandbox that enables safe user exploration. The Roadsigns project, named in honour of the…

My Oral Village publishes its annual report. 2025 was an excellent year, with important progress made through the successful completion of our first truly national project, in Sierra Leone. In addition, progress on digital OIM, for deployment in mobile money applications, was also substantial. We particularly appreciate the opportunity to build a dynamic new international…

My Oral Village announces the completion and public presentation of the Sierra Leone OIM Wiki (SLOW), a free and open source repository for the Salone OIM Library developed last year in partnership with the Bank of Sierra Leone and the New Salone Woman Organization. The wiki forms part of our commitment to ensure that all…

Following on the completion of the Salone OIM Library Project in October, 2025, My Oral Village was featured in the 2025 financial inclusion newsletter of the central bank. The article states that the project “broke new ground in helping illiterate women in Sierra Leone access financial services with confidence”. “The project proves that OIM tools…

Following piloting of the first iteration of the Salone OIM Library in recent months, a revised and updated version was released today. This follows pilot tests of the Library templates by three microfinance institutions (LAPO, Harvest, and Yoni Community Bank), the Freetown-based New Salone Woman Organization, and a national adult literacy NGO (SLADEA). Results of…

My Oral Village is pleased to share the findings from our first round of usability testing for an OIM version of GNU Taler, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in May 2025. Our goal, in collaboration with Luxembourg-based Taler Systems, Inc, is to design a mobile payments interface that enables a safe and pleasant experience for users…

After following several months of planning and field work in eight locations around Sierra Leone, My Oral Village is delighted to announce the completion of the first full version of the Salone OIM Library. This free, open source resource will be available to all stakeholders of financial inclusion in the country, under the stewardship of…

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Denomy to the Board of Directors of My Oral Village | Lighting the path out of poverty! Jennifer has more than 15 years of experience designing and delivering programs focusing on gender equality and social inclusion around the world. She specializes in youth and women’s empowerment, sustainable and inclusive…

Today we are very excited to announce the execution of a contract with the Fund for Innovation and Transformation, funded by Global Affairs Canada, to create the free, open source ‘Salone OIM Library’ (SOL). The first project of its kind, SOL features a collaboration between MOVE, the New Salone Woman Organization, the central bank and…

My Oral Village completes a collaboration with Global Communityin South Omo, Ethiopia. ‘WE Record!’ designed a full OIM solution for ‘Women Empowered’ Savings Groups. Ability to correctly identify a 3-digit written number rose from 7% to 46% at endline, and 23 group members learned to keep records, including 18 who had never attended school. A…

My Oral Village signs a supplementary agreement with Global Communities to develop a full OIM solution for savings group ‘share-out’. Share-outs are cyclical distribution of savings groups’ accumulated savings and profit, sometimes referred to as ‘audits’ adapted to the needs of oral communities, since they prove to group members that the funds in the group…