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Addressing Information Gaps: What Can Donors Do?
In a market, less information equals more risk, to both providers and consumers. Donors can play a role in closing information gaps and changing perceptions of risk. What types of information are relevant? How does information alter incentives?Blog
Big Data for Good: How Impartial Institutions can Contribute
Call detail records (CDRs) are enormous datasets, easily comprised of a few billion data points. They hold all of the information on how, when, and where customers use their mobile phones. Why should international organizations be paying attention?Blog
Data, Information and Government’s Feedback Loop
Governments collect data for many reasons. Making this data publicly accessible has the potential to encourage innovation.Blog
What Information Do Customers Need to Make Informed Decisions?
We know more today than every before about how customers use financial services. But we still don’t know enough about what information customers access about products they are considering, and how this informs their financial decisions.Blog
Why do Many Data Solutions Fail to Meet Expectations?
2015 saw a shift in the data and information solutions built to serve the microfinance industry. Many of these solutions failed to meet the expectations of their founders and were shut down or scaled back.Blog