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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.

DataHack4FI
Digital Transformation & Data

Financial inclusion innovation competition: DataHack4FI

DataHack4FI Season 3 report The DataHack for Financial Inclusion (DataHack4FI) innovation competition encourages collaboration and skills development to promote the use of data and data analytics to solve financial and economic inclusion challenges, thereby extending valuable financial services to the underserved. The initiative seeks to create communities of innovation by convening

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25 May, 2020
Measuring financial health
Consumer Outcomes

Measuring financial health: What policymakers need to know

Financial health is a potentially powerful concept that is attracting interest around the world. Citizens, politicians and policymakers know that effectively managing one’s financial resources – being financially healthy – is central to the success of both individuals and broad populations. If financial health is to be a useful construct,

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19 May, 2020
Africa Fintech Radar
Digital Transformation & Data

New partnership: Africa Fintech Network and Cenfri

The Africa Fintech Network (AFN) and Cenfri are pleased to announce the signing of their new Memorandum of Understanding. This MoU underlines the shared interest of AFN and Cenfri in developing and strengthening fintech across the continent and describes the practical support that we will give each other. AFN is the continent-wide platform that

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14 May, 2020
Data science
Digital Transformation & Data

Innovative data collection in the time of COVID-19

Adapting and changing your approaches to research during the time of COVID-19 This webinar focused on some of the learning we have shared as part of the Openi2i learning series on data collection innovations and adaptations with specific attention to how they have been applied under COVID-19.

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12 May, 2020
Risk, Remittances and Integrity Programme image
Digital Transformation & Data

New partnership: Findexable and Cenfri

Findexable and Cenfri are excited to announce the signing of their new partnership agreement. This partnership is designed to contribute to an increasingly thriving fintech ecosystem in emerging markets, with a particular focus on Africa.   The African continent is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing fintech hubs. Its supportive business ecosystems are having an effect: four

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8 May, 2020
Shared is better than perfect
Digital Transformation & Data

Shared is better than perfect

The past week has been a challenge for our team, as we analysed and weighted the data we are launching here. We set out with a very ambitious task, to track representative data on the impact of COVID-19 on the livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa and to execute this as

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24 April, 2020
Digital Transformation & Data

Digital platforms’ role in African digitisation and gig work on the back of COVID-19

Recent research by insight2impact [1] shows the number of digital platforms – virtual marketplaces – in operation across Africa increased by 37% between 2018 and 2019. These platforms had already been estimated to provide income-generating opportunities to 4.8 million workers across seven countries in 2018. As industries affected by physical-distancing

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21 April, 2020
Digital Transformation & Data

CBDC — The next frontier of mobile money?

Many discussions around retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) today revolve around ambitious policy-focused use cases. Most recently, in the face of potential competition from a growing assortment of innovative private crypto-assets like Bitcoin and stablecoins such as Facebook’s Libra, central bankers around the world have been consumed with the

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17 April, 2020
Digital Transformation & Data

Unlocking digital platforms for inclusive economies in Africa

Flattening the COVID-19 curve has solicited a global policy response limiting the physical proximity between people. The potential economic impact for Africa is still being estimated for every type of worker and enterprise, and the complexity in our ability to understand the scale of the impact is not only a

Read More »
16 April, 2020
DataHack4FI
Digital Transformation & Data

Financial inclusion innovation competition: DataHack4FI

DataHack4FI Season 3 report The DataHack for Financial Inclusion (DataHack4FI) innovation competition encourages collaboration and skills development to promote the use of data and data analytics to solve financial and economic inclusion challenges, thereby extending valuable financial services to the underserved. The initiative seeks to create communities of innovation by convening

25 May, 2020
Measuring financial health
Consumer Outcomes

Measuring financial health: What policymakers need to know

Financial health is a potentially powerful concept that is attracting interest around the world. Citizens, politicians and policymakers know that effectively managing one’s financial resources – being financially healthy – is central to the success of both individuals and broad populations. If financial health is to be a useful construct,

19 May, 2020
Africa Fintech Radar
Digital Transformation & Data

New partnership: Africa Fintech Network and Cenfri

The Africa Fintech Network (AFN) and Cenfri are pleased to announce the signing of their new Memorandum of Understanding. This MoU underlines the shared interest of AFN and Cenfri in developing and strengthening fintech across the continent and describes the practical support that we will give each other. AFN is the continent-wide platform that

14 May, 2020
Data science
Digital Transformation & Data

Innovative data collection in the time of COVID-19

Adapting and changing your approaches to research during the time of COVID-19 This webinar focused on some of the learning we have shared as part of the Openi2i learning series on data collection innovations and adaptations with specific attention to how they have been applied under COVID-19.

12 May, 2020
Risk, Remittances and Integrity Programme image
Digital Transformation & Data

New partnership: Findexable and Cenfri

Findexable and Cenfri are excited to announce the signing of their new partnership agreement. This partnership is designed to contribute to an increasingly thriving fintech ecosystem in emerging markets, with a particular focus on Africa.   The African continent is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing fintech hubs. Its supportive business ecosystems are having an effect: four

8 May, 2020
Shared is better than perfect
Digital Transformation & Data

Shared is better than perfect

The past week has been a challenge for our team, as we analysed and weighted the data we are launching here. We set out with a very ambitious task, to track representative data on the impact of COVID-19 on the livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa and to execute this as

24 April, 2020
Digital Transformation & Data

Digital platforms’ role in African digitisation and gig work on the back of COVID-19

Recent research by insight2impact [1] shows the number of digital platforms – virtual marketplaces – in operation across Africa increased by 37% between 2018 and 2019. These platforms had already been estimated to provide income-generating opportunities to 4.8 million workers across seven countries in 2018. As industries affected by physical-distancing

21 April, 2020
Digital Transformation & Data

CBDC — The next frontier of mobile money?

Many discussions around retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) today revolve around ambitious policy-focused use cases. Most recently, in the face of potential competition from a growing assortment of innovative private crypto-assets like Bitcoin and stablecoins such as Facebook’s Libra, central bankers around the world have been consumed with the

17 April, 2020
Digital Transformation & Data

Unlocking digital platforms for inclusive economies in Africa

Flattening the COVID-19 curve has solicited a global policy response limiting the physical proximity between people. The potential economic impact for Africa is still being estimated for every type of worker and enterprise, and the complexity in our ability to understand the scale of the impact is not only a

16 April, 2020
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