Money, Real Quick: Kenya's Disruptive Mobile Money Innovation
Nicholas P. Sullivan is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises at The Fletcher School (Tufts University). He is co-chair of The Fletcher School Leadership Programme for Financial Inclusion, which conducts research on financial innovation and develops leadership programmes for Central Bankers from emerging and frontier markets. He has written widely on business, technology and development, and is author of You Can Hear Me Now: How Cell Phones Are Connecting the World s Poor to the Global Economy (Jossey-Bass 2007). He received a Bellagio Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to write this book. Tonny K. Omwansa lectures at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, in the School of Computing and Informatics. He specialises in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), exploring design and implementation of low- cost technologies for developing countries, with particular emphasis on mobile applications and their socio-economic impacts. His PhD research explored the impact of mobile money at the base of the pyramid. Omwansa was also a panel member for the GSMA s Mobile Money for the Unbanked programme, evaluating mobile money projects for seed funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He received a Bellagio Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to write this book.