Draft Proposal for Inclusive Economies

Domain - Inclusion and Financial Services

"Real Solutions for Real Problems"

The Problems:

1. Accessible employment applications in the financial industry

2. Accessible public facing interfaces (including cognitive access and personal security and privacy)

3. New Markets - enabling creative economies in small emerging markets (including mobile systems)

The Deliverables

1. Financial applications that are accessible to employees with disabilities

2. Accessible customer interfaces for financial services that also address the issue of cognitive access and vulnerability to fraud

3. Mobile systems and systems amenable to micro markets, small agrarian businesses, and new creative economies in low income countries.

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006381.htm

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http://www.strathmore.edu/aboutus.php?id=171

http://mobileactive.org/mobile-camps-africa-bringing-next-generation-mobile-programmers

The Technical Plan