Olga Morawczynski

Olga manages a portfolio of projects focusing on financial inclusion at The MasterCard Foundation. She has spent close to a decade actively working in the financial inclusion sector. She has engaged closely with low income clients to better understand their financial needs, and financial service providers to design and scale impactful solutions. Olga has published her work widely, both through peer reviewed journals and industry focused publications. She has been cited by popular media periodicals, including CNN and the Economist. Olga has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and continues to actively innovate in the industry, engaging providers, regulators and customers to push the needle on financial inclusion.

By Olga Morawczynski

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Just How Open is Safaricom’s Open API?

In September 2015, Safaricom announced that it had opened its M-Pesa platform to allow developers to create next-generation solutions on the platform. But just how open is the platform?
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Fraud in Uganda: How Millions Were Lost to Internal Collusion

Kampala’s Anti-Corruption Court is at the epicenter of a major mobile money fraud. The very public nature of this case will hopefully lead to some positive outcomes among industry actors in mobile money markets around the world.
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Turning Good Ideas into Profitable Products

In the second in our series on failure, we learn some key lessons from the Grameen Foundation's AppLab Money.
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Redefining Failure: Why Getting it Wrong is Part of the Equation

In the first of a blog series on innovation in branchless banking, we take a look at why failure might actually be something to strive for.
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The Art of Discovery: Incubating Mobile Money Ideas In Uganda

How can we creatively design products that can have a real impact on the mobile money market? This post shares the experience of Grameen App Lab in Uganda.