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Colloquium: Mobile 2.0: m-money for the unbanked
Colloquium conducted by Dr. Erwin Alampay of NCPAG, Philippines.
Presentation began by looking at the potential for M-money.
Why should we use m-money?
Improving efficiency: Improve services, financial services. BOP a target.
BOP (migrants) relies on various forms of remittances
Looking at Filipinos, 9% of BOP had a relative living abroad, and 13% in another part of the country, so [...]
Sri Lankan Software Industry: Repeating an experiment once failed?
Narayana Murthy, the ‘IT Guru’ is in Colombo. ‘Entrepreneurship and IT for National Integration: A Challenge for Sri Lanka’ was his topic addressing Sri Lankan software industry representatives, on Saturday. The well attended event was organized by the three month old Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM) that has ambitious plans to [...]
Sri Lanka to regulate m payments?
One hopes of course that this will not detract from the Central Bank’s work on bringing inflation down to single digits and rebuilding trust in the banking system.
Sri Lanka will issue new rules covering financial transactions through mobile phones, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said, as the island’s fast growing celcos join banks to offer [...]
BOP strategy in the Caribbean
Dr Hans Wijayasuriya, the CEO of Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s largest mobile operator, gave an illuminating talk on his company’s BOP strategy on the 27th of September, at the Central Bank lecture series. He claims that his company was the first in the region to move away from a focus ARPU to a profit-per-minutes focus [...]
Choices: Calls or gold?
By Rohan Samarajiva
LBO >> Choices : Priceless Link
08 March 2007 08:26:29
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March 08 (LBO) – Indonesia, like Sri Lanka, sends its women to foreign lands to work as housemaids. The numbers may be larger, though the proportion is smaller.
Telecom networks are expanding fast in both countries, Indonesia faster. The telecom sector is attracting massive investments in both [...]
What is the addressable market for telecom?
According to an equity research firm, the limits of the addressable market in mobile in Sri Lanka will be reached when 2 million more phones are connected. This conclusion needs further interrogation, but on first glance it looks like they have the mobile/per 100 number understated by about 1.1, which does not [...]
Teleuse and Living Conditions in the North & East (Sri Lanka)
Findings from two surveys
The Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) held its twenty-seventh Open Forum, to discuss “Living Conditions of the North and the East” of Sri Lanka in relation to the rest of the country from the findings of the Consumer Finances and Socio Economic (CFS) survey 2003/2004 conducted by the Central Bank. This is the eighth [...]
Rural Mobile Use in Sri Lanka
This serves, perhaps, as a response to the most recent comment:
Almost all the efforts of elites like Prof Samarajeewa has been a farce. The rural -urban gap has widened as clearly indicative of offerings made in wireless
Chamintha Thilakarathna (Reuters)
Colombo, October 1
After 25 years selling fruit and vegetables at a market in downtown Colombo, Sri [...]
Randy and Michael Spence
Dr. Randy Spence spoke of his experiences in Somalia, where there isn’t much government to speak of. But people are using ICTs.
However, he emphasized that ICTs must drop in cost for the investments of the 1990s to bear fruit. “I’m involved in nanotech and biotech, and fairly rapid diffusion of this technology will [...]
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