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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

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.

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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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Digital Transformation & Data

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.

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#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

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Digital Transformation & Data

Farming for data in Kenya

Thoughts from the first event in the #DataHacks4FI meet-up series in Nairobi In Kenya, agriculture is the second largest contributor to GDP and the largest supporter of livelihoods. 75% of the labour force in Kenya is employed in agriculture and 33% of all adults derive their main source of income

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Digital Transformation & Data

A river gets full through its tributaries

Building mutually beneficial financial inclusion communities through data The first language that l was exposed to as a child was Sotho/Tswana. My maternal grandfather had this saying as one of his favourites, “Noka etlatswa ke dinokana”, meaning “a river gets full through its tributaries for it to flow yearlong”. This

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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

Digital Transformation & Data

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

Digital Transformation & Data

Farming for data in Kenya

Thoughts from the first event in the #DataHacks4FI meet-up series in Nairobi In Kenya, agriculture is the second largest contributor to GDP and the largest supporter of livelihoods. 75% of the labour force in Kenya is employed in agriculture and 33% of all adults derive their main source of income

Digital Transformation & Data

A river gets full through its tributaries

Building mutually beneficial financial inclusion communities through data The first language that l was exposed to as a child was Sotho/Tswana. My maternal grandfather had this saying as one of his favourites, “Noka etlatswa ke dinokana”, meaning “a river gets full through its tributaries for it to flow yearlong”. This

Getting ahead of the curve: How the regulatory discourse on M-insurance is changing
Digital Transformation & Data

Getting ahead of the curve: How the regulatory discourse on M-insurance is changing

Nearly a year ago, we joined the A2ii in Abidjan to sit down with a roomful of regulators to discuss the challenges and imperatives CIMA faces in regulating mobile insurance at the CIMA-A2ii Workshop on Mobile Insurance Regulation. In the CIMA context, as with most countries in Africa, mobile network operators (MNOs) and the technical