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Dept of State Hosts Tech@State: Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion

Economic, Energy, Agricultural and Trade Issues: State Hosts Tech@State: Mobile Money & Financial Inclusion

The State Department will host Tech@State: Mobile Money & Financial Inclusion http://www.state.gov/statecraft/tech/money/index.htm on Monday, August 2 at the George Marshall Conference Center at the State Department from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero is leading the State Department's global policy on mobile money and will open the event. Other U.S. Government speakers include representatives from the U.S. Department of Treasury and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The half-day workshop will feature senior executives and experts from mobile money organizations around the globe, including ACCION International, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), Frog Design, Frontline SMS:Credit, mPay Connect, m-Via, Obopay, Banca de Oportunidades (Colombia), and Roshan (Afghanistan). Panelists will discuss increasing the scale of mobile money initiatives, select case studies, and the application of mobile money in foreign policy initiatives including food security, transparency and security, remittances, and more.

Speaker Bios can be found at http://www.state.gov/statecraft/tech/money/144513.htm

Source: U.S. Department of State