2017
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64677-0_17
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ICT and Financial Inclusion in the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract: The challenge of providing the infrastructure of public services in the less developed regions of Brazil has mobilized the Brazilian government in the quest for new and creative approaches that can reduce the major interregional disparities in the country. One of the initiatives implemented include access to the financial system, since, by way of example, such access is almost non-existent on Marajó Island in the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. To change this reality, an innovative e-government project … Show more

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“…Moreover, the implementation of a digital ID system permits the removal from the government payroll of "ghost" civil servants and strengthens electoral integrity. Mobile money, which started as an exchange of airtime credit, evolved in order to store credit on the SIM card [32] and became the most influential ICT enabler of financial inclusion [33] for millions of unbankable people. Such schemes made possible safe, low-cost transfers of small amounts of money to or from tiny or informal enterprises and women entrepreneurs with limited mobility due to cultural, religious, or practical reasons.…”
Section: Diffusion Of Ict and Transformations Of The Economymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, the implementation of a digital ID system permits the removal from the government payroll of "ghost" civil servants and strengthens electoral integrity. Mobile money, which started as an exchange of airtime credit, evolved in order to store credit on the SIM card [32] and became the most influential ICT enabler of financial inclusion [33] for millions of unbankable people. Such schemes made possible safe, low-cost transfers of small amounts of money to or from tiny or informal enterprises and women entrepreneurs with limited mobility due to cultural, religious, or practical reasons.…”
Section: Diffusion Of Ict and Transformations Of The Economymentioning
confidence: 99%