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Speaker 1: Bird business flash. Is taking stock with Kathleen Hayes and

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Speaker 1: grim Box on Bloomberg Radio Africa. Africa Man he say,

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Speaker 1: is definitely turned the corner, and one big piece of

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Speaker 1: that puzzle is technology from tiny startups to major corporations

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Speaker 1: like General Electric investing in that continent helping it to

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Speaker 1: move ahead. Someone else who's helping it to move ahead

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Speaker 1: is joining us now. A regular on the show. Dick Garity,

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Speaker 1: principle at g v A, research columnists at Investopedia and

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Speaker 1: also advising the World Bank Group on integrating information and

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Speaker 1: communication technologies in development projects in Africa. Dave, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Kathleen, thank you very much. Well, it's really

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Speaker 1: terrific for our listeners to hear this part of your

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Speaker 1: story and your work because this is so important, so powerful.

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Speaker 1: Tell us what you're doing with the World Bank, uh

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Speaker 1: in terms of I've been consulting with the World Banks

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Speaker 1: and spent two thousand and ten looking mostly around how

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Speaker 1: do we use technology to get financial inclusion for people

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Speaker 1: in Africa? And financial inclusion basically means how do we

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Speaker 1: give people access to the use of either bank accounts

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Speaker 1: or access to other formal financial services. This could be microinsurance,

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Speaker 1: this could be micro loans, but primarily being able to

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Speaker 1: leverage the technology platform that cell phones represent to be

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Speaker 1: able to get access to those services. And this has

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Speaker 1: been instrumental in a number of areas, whether it's doing

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Speaker 1: you know, utility bill presentation, settlement, paying school fees, wide

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Speaker 1: range of applications. Could you give us one specific example

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Speaker 1: that you've worked on, you've been part of, to give

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Speaker 1: us a sense of how it got you know, what

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Speaker 1: it is and then the impact it is having. Sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: In case in point um just it was less than

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Speaker 1: months ago, I was in northern Nigeria work in a

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Speaker 1: project to modernize irrigation districts UM. This is a five

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Speaker 1: million dollar project that the World Bank is doing with

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Speaker 1: the Nigerian government. Obviously, the first thing that has to

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Speaker 1: happen there is that the farmers have to be pay

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Speaker 1: their irrigation fees. If they don't pay for the water fees,

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Speaker 1: the irrigation project will fail. UM. Typically, though, you're finding

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Speaker 1: that these farmers, you know, they're operating in rural locations.

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Speaker 1: UH they're about a hundred and fifty thousand farmers across

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Speaker 1: five irrigation districts. And we're going to be implementing UH

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Speaker 1: mobile money payment programs starting in the second half of

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Speaker 1: to help assist all this now to the extent that

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Speaker 1: we can help farmers pay their water fees. Obviously the

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Speaker 1: protect productivity can improve. They spend less time basically trying

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Speaker 1: to travel their costs. We're also at the same time

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Speaker 1: trying to leverage their cell phones to provide other information

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Speaker 1: to improve their productivity, whether it's crop prices, whether it's

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Speaker 1: further information in terms of what techniques might be used

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Speaker 1: to improve their own productivity. But this is a five

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Speaker 1: million dollar project, it's in it's that's in its third

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Speaker 1: how profound the impact can be of information and communication

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Speaker 1: technolog and she's particularly in poor areas like Africa that

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Speaker 1: are are really trying to take off in many ways

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Speaker 1: exceeding a paper you co authored with Paula f Lightel,

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Speaker 1: a senior social development specialists at the World Bank. It's

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Speaker 1: about using I c T information communication technologies to support

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Speaker 1: ending the tuberculosis epidemic in Southern Africa. Tell Us, I

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Speaker 1: is killing more people than HIV eight And in the

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Speaker 1: case of looking at Southern Africa, you've got infection rates

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Speaker 1: And from that standpoint, we're in a situation where, um,

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Speaker 1: be very important in terms of addressing a major public

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Speaker 1: we're going to be using mobile money with here is

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Speaker 1: to ensure that people are being incentivized to stay and

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Speaker 1: continuing to complete their treatment programs so we didn't have

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Speaker 1: more disease resistant forms of tuberculosis arise. So the i

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Speaker 1: C T aspect information technology communication technology aspect is the

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Speaker 1: mobile money? Are there other ways in which you're using

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Speaker 1: I c T to fight tuberculosis? Certainly, in the event

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Speaker 1: of being able to use um, you know, mobile forms

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Speaker 1: of computing, whether it's tablet computers in terms of putting

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Speaker 1: these in the hands of healthcare workers, whether they're working

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Speaker 1: in clinics or whether they're actually going out to communities

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Speaker 1: to deal with patients on a more localized level. UM.

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Speaker 1: Certainly the ability of these tablets and mobile forms of

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Speaker 1: computing to ensure that you can try to find ways

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Speaker 1: to train people while they're in the field, and then

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Speaker 1: not only in terms of training people in the field,

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Speaker 1: but also once the information and data is gathered, then

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Speaker 1: being able to bring that back in a centralized basis

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Speaker 1: fairly quickly, and more importantly, to the extent that this

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Speaker 1: information is being gathered as fairly transparent, being able to

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Speaker 1: react on a faster basis in terms of trends that

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Speaker 1: are developing, and what about where is technology going? This

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Speaker 1: is certainly, this is humanitarian, This is work to help people.

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Speaker 1: Is there eventually an investment angle here as well? Certainly

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Speaker 1: there is an investment angle if you wanted to look

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Speaker 1: at mobile money services in Africa. They're primarily operated by

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Speaker 1: mobile network operators cell phone companies. The company that actually

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Speaker 1: had pioneered the development of Empessa in um Kenya, company

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Speaker 1: called Safari Comm is actually a subsidiary of Vodaphone. But

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Speaker 1: if one was looking for a pure local play around

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Speaker 1: mobile money as well as also mobile network operations. As

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Speaker 1: a company headquarter in South Africa, mt N Group there

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Speaker 1: over the counter a d R here in the United

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Speaker 1: States is mt N o y market caps about fifteen

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Speaker 1: and a half billion dollars traded. Uh was up one

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Speaker 1: point seven today, closing in a dollars fifty two cents,

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Speaker 1: has an average volume about a hundred and sixteen thousand shares,

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Speaker 1: So it's it's a liquid named fifteen and a half

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Speaker 1: real quick five seconds? Do you own any of these days?

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Speaker 1: MTN okay? But hey, well truly certainly gave us an

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Speaker 1: interesting idea when it comes to investing in Africa. Gave

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Speaker 1: garrity for principle at g B a research and a

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Speaker 1: consultant to the World Bank, on some very important work

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Speaker 1: being done in Africa. This is taking stock on Bloomberg

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