An introductory to a series in which Salton shares his experience leading a consortium of DFS stakeholders in Sierra Leone piloting three carefully selected G2P use cases solutions. — Sierra Leone’s Digital Financial Service (DFS) ecosystem though still under-developed can no longer be appropriately characterized as nascent given that it has existed in the form of Mobile Money Services for a decade. Splash, aiming to replicate the success and scale of Safaricom’s Mpesa in Kenya launched in 2009 initially…

Working on the Spring Boot based monolithic server that clients are to connect to for the miKashBoks project, the need arose to implement PATCH endpoints used to update models. Given that most update actions followed the same operations: Deserialise request body into a DTO Run some sort of validation Load…

West Africans generally associate free open source software, which is easily available to use and modify, as being inferior to commercial alternatives. This is a consequence of both their lack of understanding of the open source model of software development and a general consensus that if free software is usually…

iDT Labs Chief Technology Officer Salton Massally talks about his experience leading the integration of Advance Uganda to the country’s ATM network and how this hands-on experience from a more developed DFS market enables iDT Labs’ Financial Inclusion 2.0 vision across fragile states — Microfinance institutions (MFIs) continue to play very important roles as financial intermediaries for most of the world’s poor. In Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Gambia, as many as 38 MFIs are licensed by the central banks and together serve about 250,000 clients. Almost 100% of the time, these MFIs are…

Salton Massally, Co-Founder and CTO at iDT Labs, talks about his team’s journey in making an effective and user friendly Android Case Management System for the low tech and low capacity public sector environment in Sierra Leone Background iDT Labs developed the first-ever Android Case Management System to fast-track court cases…