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A Cash Keyboard for Digital Finance

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...

Saving is Freedom

by Brett Matthews | Jan 7, 2013 | Microfinance, Village institutions

In 2001 I outlined a proposal to a large charity to deliver savings to Cambodian villagers. The British director was quiet until I finished, when he announced: “there is only one difficulty with this proposal. Villagers don’t have any money – they are too poor to...
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