Category Archives: Collection

Women Together: Incentivising Savings

Posted on February 21, 2010 by

Mahila Milan means “women together” and provides a decentralised vehicle for the empowerment of women via leadership roles and advocacy alongside its pivotal daily savings collection. Continue reading →

Posted in Banking, Collection, India, Informal & Flexible, Loans, Savings, Urban | Tagged , , , , , ,

iBoP Asia’s Frontiers: Charting the future of S&T innovation for the poor in Southeast Asia

Posted on February 6, 2010 by

A bicycle-powered paper shredder that can be used to make environment-friendly charcoal. A new way of processing waste cooking oil that turns it into cheap fuel for vehicles. A web-based system that allows small-scale fishers to access marine data using … Continue reading →

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Using Ethnographic Research To Learn About Life at the BoP

Posted on March 21, 2009 by

The expected deliverable of the iBoP Asia grant project is that we create a new payment strategy or business model for purchasing a shared resource within a Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) community. Recognizing that no member of our research … Continue reading →

Posted in Bottom of the Pyramid, Collection, Strategy, User research

Collection: Pay as you go or prepaid economy?

Posted on January 31, 2009 by

The basic concept for this project emerged from a series of observations covering the themes of managing on irregular and unpredictable incomes, informal economies at the BoP as well as the popularity of the "prepaid" model which enable micro purchases … Continue reading →

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