The Persistence of Paper: A Case Study in Microfinance from Ghana.
The Persistence of Paper: A Case Study in Microfinance from Ghana, Ghosh, I., Chen, J., Ming, J., & Abouzied, A. (2015, May). In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, (p. 13). ACM.
Paper as a medium persists as the de facto standard for information collection, storage, and transfer in many low-resource developing contexts. Of these contexts, the microfinance industry continues to be fascinating in the ongoing ICTD conversation due, in part, to its elimination of paper by digitizing money transfers using mobile banking…