Digital Impact Alliance

Mifos - Research Mobile Money Services in Central Asia

Objective

There are hundreds of mobile money services that allow clients to conduct financial transactions via the mobile phone - this includes P2P payments, bill payments, repaying loans, opening savings, loans, etc. We must stay aware of the popular mobile money services so we know which ones to integrate with.

Description

You will research mobile money services available in a given region. For each country in that region, you will input into a Google Sheet various details about the mobile money service including # of subscribers, products offered, date started, etc. Each country wiil have multiple mobile money services so don't forget to research all.

There are multiple tasks for this research area with each task corresponding to a region. For each region, there is one example to help you.

Getting Started

Input the data in the respective tab for the specific region in the Google Sheet: https://goo.gl/EaxriZ. Tab will have list of countries to research for that region. Find all of the providers you can for the region. There will usually be several major ones per country.

Helpful resources include:

Task tags

  • DFS
  • fintech
  • mifos
  • research
  • mobile money

Students who completed this task

jk60

Task type

  • assessment Outreach / Research
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2018