A Future of Gender Inclusive Financial Services

On my second day at Social Innovation Lab, BRAC, I had the chance to attend a workshop on ‘Women and Finance’ organized by IDEO. As you may know, IDEO is a global design firm that aims to create p... Read More

To what extent is ‘inclusion’ possible with Mobile Money?

Masrura Oishi

Noorbanu was thrilled to use the mobile phone for the first time. She was newly married and her husband lived far away from the family for his job. He got her a mobile phone through which she could st... Read More

Change is everywhere: rural perspectives on urbanization

maria

(cross-posted on the BRAC blog) “I want both my daughter and son to get a job as soon as they’re done with their studies…it may be in Rangpur, it may be in Dhaka…it doesn’t matter….but the... Read More

Working with urban people is different than working with rural people

Shamsin

Working with urban people is different than working with rural people But it’s not necessarily harder! That was one of the interesting conclusions that yesterday’s Innovation Forum organized by th... Read More

Planting the seeds of innovation

maria

On the BRAC blog, you can see “2011 in review” to get a quick sense of how much was accomplished last year! It’s worth five minutes to appreciate the incredible breadth and depth t... Read More