GoodDollar In Rwanda: Who We Met With To Advance Our Pioneering UBI Blockchain Project
By Tal Oron, Executive Director, GoodDollar
For three days in December Legal Lead Ziv Keinan and I explored the candidacy of Central African country Rwanda as the location of a universal basic income pilot scheme for GoodDollar.
During our scoping trip (more of which can be read about here), we met with organisations — spanning banking, education, telecommunications, charity and commercial sectors with potential links to GoodDollar’s mission. Here follows what we learnt from our conferences.
Our appointment with Bank of Kigali (BK), the largest commercial bank in Rwanda in terms of assets, proved enlightening. We met with CEO Dr Diane Karusisi and CTO Regis Rugemanshuro and discovered that there is a healthy struggle between the mobile payment industry and the banking industry in Rwanda. Innovation is critical to winning this struggle, and online payment mechanisms are widely available…
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