Obviously not Bitcoin

[J.A. Terranson]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Michael Nelson wrote:

> Heard Rajiv Shah, president of the United States Agency for 
> International Development (USAID), on NPR this morning say that as the 
> financial infrastructure was lacking in Afghanistan, it was non-trivial 
> to pay people.  So they had a couple of pilot programmes where people 
> were "paid on their mobile phones".
> 
> What do you think this entails?  The lack of infrastructure that makes 
> Western style payment possible, would also make a mobile phone solution 
> difficult (you have to use something accessible via your phone, in order 
> to get afghanis in your hand in some local place).

Some kind of hawala scheme?


//Alif

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