Across the continent there has been a very long debate about the payment of interest on mobile money. What has the experience been like in Zimbabwe?

African innovation refers to innovative technologies, start-ups, and programs developed by Africans for African needs and challenges – African Innovation Foundation

a significant portion of adult South Africans are exposed to the necessary delivery of cash to get their social grants

South Africa’s informal savings market thrives – R44 billion collectively saved in approximately 820,000 stokvels.

There is a lot of attention on the effects and impact of Covid-19 on our daily lives and we are immersed in stories from all sectors in South Africa.

The health implications of COVID-19 go beyond the threat it poses itself as an illness.

We release wave 1 data for our multi-country Covid-19 Livelihoods Impact Survey.

As industries affected by physical-distancing COVID-19 measures race to reconfigure value chains, could platform business models hold the key to accelerated digitisation?

No country or continent is untouched by COVID-19; but developing markets will see more short- and long-term negative social and economic effects than the developed world.

No country or continent is untouched by COVID-19; but developing markets will see more short- and long-term negative social and economic effects than the developed world.

How to ensure inclusive innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Factors which turn specific city regions into engine rooms for tech innovation and taking solutions to market.

Policymakers, development organisations and private sector players, often rely on financial inclusion data uncovered through consumer or ‘demand-side’ surveys.

The new commitment, announced by Secretary of State Alok Sharma, represents the start of an important new approach to financial sector development in sub-Saharan Africa.

The continued journey of data science interns, Dieudonné Niyitanga and Samuel Mutinda

Find out more about one of the course mentors’ learnings from providing support to the course participants and the key role mentorship can play.

The movement of Africa’s rapidly growing urban population will be shaped by digital technologies in the era of smart mobility.

Dieudonné Niyitanga and Samuel Mutinda's data internship journey.

Often policy makers, regulators and financial service providers are far removed from the realities of the people whose lives we are trying to improve.

Using SMS surveys to measure digital financial inclusion

Four findings from the DataHack4FI Innovation Competition.

Four findings from Season 2 of the DataHack4FI Innovation Competition.

The data collected allows for comparison across countries based on measurement dimensions such access, uptake, usage, cost to client,

Translating insights from behavioural science into the design and delivery of financial services,

We have changed the user experience on the insight2impact data portal by making it simpler to navigate.

A cautionary tale about the process of setting up pilot studies

Learnings on the data science landscape in Africa from the DataHack4FI initiative

The MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise) sector is arguably the biggest employer in many economies, particularly in the developing world

What we’ve learned over three seasons of the DataHack4FI innovation competition and how the competition has evolved.

While financial inclusion has risen to 68% globally, Sub Saharan Africa continues to lag with only 32% of its citizens having an account at a financial institution.

Behavioural interventions to better meet the financial needs of consumers

Digital platforms connecting buyers and sellers of goods and services across Africa are on the rise. Learn more about our research and week of learning in Lagos.

We recently rolled out a pilot study in Nigeria, to explore the digital financial services landscape and how it serves the people. Learn more about our findings here.

We take a closer look at financial inclusion research and the shift towards using transactional data to develop more meaningful indicators.

Read more about our work with the Nigerian Inter-bank Settlement System (NIBSS) and the key findings from our transactional data analysis.

We investigate the prospect of new financial inclusion indicators for policymakers, through transactional data analysis.