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The Future Of Money.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- 60 Minutes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Safaricom.
- Economics.
- Finance.
- Trade and commerce.
- Kenya.
- Local Subjects:
- Safaricom.
- Economics.
- Finance.
- Trade and commerce.
- Kenya.
- Genre:
- News story
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (13 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2015.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- A report on M-PESA, a mobile phone-based payment system used in Kenya created by Safaricom, Kenya's largest cell phone provider company, that has improved urban commerce and brought basic necessities like water and solar power to poorer rural areas. Users give money to an agent at an M-PESA kiosk and it's converted into virtual currency inputted on a phone. Includes interviews with: Bob Collymore, CEO of Safaricom; Daniel (last name not disclosed), taxi driver; Anji (last name not disclosed), shop owner; Mary Tonkei, Maasai dairy farmer; and Stephen Wainaina Waweru, pig farmer.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 11, 2023).
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