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Mobile phone banking in Haiti

The Gates Foundation just finished hosting the Global Savings Forum which included exploring how the poor can expand their use of mobile phones for financial services.

For a look at how this works, here’s a video about such a project Mercy Corps and a Seattle wireless company has already launched in Haiti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGfWC343CaQ&feature=youtu.be

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Tom Paulson

Tom Paulson is founder and lead journalist at Humanosphere. Prior to operating this online news site, he reported on science,  medicine, health policy, aid and development for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Contact him at tom[at]humanosphere.org or follow him on Twitter @tompaulson.