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 | 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...