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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.

Openi2i conversations – a mentor’s experience on DataHack4FI and the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science
Digital Transformation & Data

Openi2i conversations – a mentor’s experience on DataHack4FI and the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science

Have you had a look at insight2impact’s Openi2i series yet? Openi2i is an initiative of Cenfri and Finmark Trust focused on sharing some of the programmatic learnings we’ve discovered from the last five years of jointly implementing the insight2impact programme. For Openi2i, we’ve partnered with NextBillion to document and explore

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22 January, 2020
Digital platforms: unlocking economic inclusion in the rising era of smart mobility in Africa
Digital Transformation & Data

Digital platforms: unlocking economic inclusion in the rising era of smart mobility in Africa

The movement of Africa’s rapidly growing urban population will be shaped by digital technologies in the era of smart mobility. Smart mobility is the coming together of various key elements, technology, infrastructure and people, that offers flexible first-to-last mile mobility that is integrated, safe, on-demand, and cost-effective. In twenty years,

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21 January, 2020
Digital Transformation & Data

The financial needs of Mexicans

How do Mexicans solve their financial needs? This report outlines the findings from a study carried out by insight2impact in collaboration with Comision Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV) of Mexico to gauge how Mexicans meet their financial needs, especially when it comes to send and receive money, manage liquidity,

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11 December, 2019
Digital Transformation & Data

An analysis of ID proxy initiatives across the globe

BankservAfrica and Cenfri investigate the role of ID proxy initiatives in transforming payment ecosystems in Africa and beyond.   Real-time instant payments have become a hallmark of the digital economy and financial system. As part of our growing work in payment ecosystems, this report clarifies and investigates proxy and addressing

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29 November, 2019
Digital Transformation & Data

Scenarios for Africa’s digital future

The scenarios for Africa’s digital future aim to stimulate a discussion around the choices that decision-makers in Africa have to make in responding to forces and uncertainties that shape the continent’s digital economy.

The digital revolution is gaining ground across Africa.

Will data and technology be governed in a manner that contributes to the safety of the internet and the wellbeing of people?

To what extent will the centralisation of the digital economy shift the locus of power and decision-making authority from Africa?

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29 November, 2019
Making technical assistance work
Digital Transformation & Data

Making technical assistance work in Africa: Three keys to success for financial services providers

It’s not easy delivering data-driven financial services to the financially excluded in Africa’s emerging economies. That’s why technical assistance (TA) can be essential to the success of the region’s financial service providers (FSPs). Comprised of various forms of non-financial assistance provided by outside specialists, TA can take the form of

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16 October, 2019
Openi2i conversations – a mentor’s experience on DataHack4FI and the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science
Digital Transformation & Data

Openi2i conversations – a mentor’s experience on DataHack4FI and the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science

Have you had a look at insight2impact’s Openi2i series yet? Openi2i is an initiative of Cenfri and Finmark Trust focused on sharing some of the programmatic learnings we’ve discovered from the last five years of jointly implementing the insight2impact programme. For Openi2i, we’ve partnered with NextBillion to document and explore

22 January, 2020
Digital platforms: unlocking economic inclusion in the rising era of smart mobility in Africa
Digital Transformation & Data

Digital platforms: unlocking economic inclusion in the rising era of smart mobility in Africa

The movement of Africa’s rapidly growing urban population will be shaped by digital technologies in the era of smart mobility. Smart mobility is the coming together of various key elements, technology, infrastructure and people, that offers flexible first-to-last mile mobility that is integrated, safe, on-demand, and cost-effective. In twenty years,

21 January, 2020
Digital Transformation & Data

The financial needs of Mexicans

How do Mexicans solve their financial needs? This report outlines the findings from a study carried out by insight2impact in collaboration with Comision Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV) of Mexico to gauge how Mexicans meet their financial needs, especially when it comes to send and receive money, manage liquidity,

11 December, 2019
Digital Transformation & Data

An analysis of ID proxy initiatives across the globe

BankservAfrica and Cenfri investigate the role of ID proxy initiatives in transforming payment ecosystems in Africa and beyond.   Real-time instant payments have become a hallmark of the digital economy and financial system. As part of our growing work in payment ecosystems, this report clarifies and investigates proxy and addressing

29 November, 2019
Digital Transformation & Data

Scenarios for Africa’s digital future

The scenarios for Africa’s digital future aim to stimulate a discussion around the choices that decision-makers in Africa have to make in responding to forces and uncertainties that shape the continent’s digital economy.

The digital revolution is gaining ground across Africa.

Will data and technology be governed in a manner

29 November, 2019
Delivering online skills training in Africa: Three keys to a successful program
Digital Transformation & Data

Delivering online skills training in Africa: Three keys to a successful programme

The shortage of data science skills is a major challenge for Africa. With relatively few local educational institutions offering dedicated data science degrees, the small contingent of existing Africa-based data scientists tend to have varied backgrounds – and they often acquire their data science skills by piecing together a range

4 November, 2019
Digital Transformation & Data

What do we really know about digital solutions catalysing agribusiness in Africa for women?

Nearly US$3 billion has been generated through agribusiness in Africa, touching the lives of over 33 million users of digital solutions in this space. Digitisation in agribusiness has the potential to unlock greater value for sustainable livelihoods on the continent, especially those of women farmers, who often fall behind in

30 October, 2019
Making technical assistance work
Digital Transformation & Data

Making technical assistance work in Africa: Three keys to success for financial services providers

It’s not easy delivering data-driven financial services to the financially excluded in Africa’s emerging economies. That’s why technical assistance (TA) can be essential to the success of the region’s financial service providers (FSPs). Comprised of various forms of non-financial assistance provided by outside specialists, TA can take the form of

16 October, 2019
Households
Digital Transformation & Data

Reaching for the future, searching for a vision for Africa’s digital economy

Digitalisation is disrupting markets and economic structures globally, and even advanced economies do not have a clear view of the new economy and the rules that will govern it. While it is clear that we’re going through a period of disruption and change, it’s not yet clear which of the disrupters will

7 October, 2019
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