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Digital Transformation & Data


Cenfri contributes to building the fundamentals of welfare-enhancing digital economies. We prioritise digital transformation that is inclusive, sustainable, opportunity-creating and has appropriate safeguards. Digital transformation underpins much of our work and ranges from payments digitalisation to digital economy diagnostics, and digital skills assessments to direct digitalisation support.

Cenfri also collaborates with policymakers and other public and private sector stakeholders in data-driven decision-making that is calibrated to the data available and is designed to strengthen the existing skills and data governance processes within these organisations. The Rwanda Economy Digitalisation Programme is our flagship evidence-informed policymaking and data-for-decisions intervention, but we have considerable experience in using evidence to generate insights and inform policymaking and business decision-making with a view to improved economic development outcomes. Our expertise in data, payments and digital identity enables us to contribute to current DPI (digital public infrastructure) conversations.

Digital Transformation & Data

DataHack4FI innovation competition

DataHack4FI is an innovation competition bringing together data enthusiasts and financial service providers (FSPs) to promote the use of data-driven decision-making in financial inclusion. insight2impact (i2ifacility) was funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The programme was established and driven by Cenfri and Finmark Trust.

Digital Transformation & Data

The tip of the (data) iceberg in Uganda

Faith owns a small fruit-selling business in Uganda. Like most small business owners in Uganda, Faith started her enterprise with her own income and lacks access to finance to grow beyond the few fruit stalls she owns. She doesn’t keep full financial records and lives most of her life informally

Digital Transformation & Data

Interview with Jessica Colaço, Co-Founder Brave Ventures Labs

Listen to the interview with Jessica Colaço, Co-Founder Brave Ventures Labs on the DataHack4FI Innovation Competition in Kenya insight2impact (i2ifacility) was funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The programme was established and driven by Cenfri and Finmark Trust.

Digital Transformation & Data

Interview with Anthony Mabonga, Credit Risk Analyst at M-Kopa

Listen to the interview with Anthony Mabonga, Credit Risk Analyst at M-Kopa on the DataHack4FI Innovation Competition in Kenya insight2impact (i2ifacility) was funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The programme was established and driven by Cenfri and Finmark Trust.

Digital Transformation & Data

DataHack4FI – Data innovation competition

The Datahack4FI innovation competition in Rwanda. insight2impact (i2ifacility) was funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The programme was established and driven by Cenfri and Finmark Trust.

Digital Transformation & Data

Zambia DataHack4FI Hackathon

Highlights, Friday 24th – Sunday 26th March 2017. insight2impact (i2ifacility) was funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The programme was established and driven by Cenfri and Finmark Trust.

Digital Transformation & Data

The data effects of mobile money in Uganda

As you leave Kampala and its busy streets, you head into rural Uganda where you exchange small shops and boda-bodas for plots of coffee, maize, goats and chickens. More than 80% of the population lives here, and agriculture and its large cohort of smallholder farmers account for 23% of Uganda’s

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Deriving value from spatial data

Megan Yates – Ixioanalytics insight2impact (i2ifacility) was funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The programme was established and driven by Cenfri and Finmark Trust.

#IWD2018 : Remittances in SSA
Digital Transformation & Data

Client Insights focus note

Alternative data sources and analytical methodologies. The focus of this note is on the increasing adoption by the private sector of alternative data sources and analytical methodologies for financial service provision. It highlights the major trends that are contributing to this increasing adoption and their relevance for financial inclusion. insight2impact