The hiveonline platform is more than just accounting software: it is set to revolutionize community finance. How is hiveonline Different? hiveonline isn’t the first or only organization set out to boost financial inclusion through the digitalization of village savings and loan associations. In fact, many NGOs, mobile money providers, and… Read More »What Makes VSLA.online Different?
In the article titled How Blockchain Can Be Used to Promote Gender Equality, Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation, discusses the power of blockchain to empower women and highlights the work of hiveonline. With spotlight on women for International Women’s Day on March 8th, the… Read More »hiveonline featured in Coindesk
hiveonline is excited to be taking part in SG2020: The Future of Savings Groups: Scale. Sustainability. Impact as an exhibitor at the Technology Fair which will showcase companies exploring digital solutions for Village Savings and Loan Associations. Since last year hiveonline has been designing and developing our flagship digital savings… Read More »Meet hiveonline at the SEEP Conference in Durban, South Africa March 10-12, 2020!
The report released recently by Citi’s Global Perspectives & Solutions division, explores digital initiatives for financial inclusion targeted to the 1.7 billion people who remain without access to financial institutions. In the article titled, “Can Technology Drive Micro Finance?”, hiveonline founder and CEO, Sofie Blakstad, presents the case for driving… Read More »Hiveonline is featured in CitiBank’s “Banking the Next Billion Digital Financial Inclusion in Action”
Changing Economies for the Little Guy On the panel, Fin and Tech for Good, Sofie spoke about the work of hiveonline in Niger and highlighting the importance of supporting the inspiring local women entrepreneurs. In conditions in rural Niger, where entrepreneurship is less of a choice and more of a… Read More »Sofie at Paris Fintech Forum
A couple weeks back, John Munyi, our lead developer at hiveonline set out from Kigali for a trip out to Niger to see our the hiveonline community finance app in action. He told me all about it on a quick call this week! Arriving to Naimey for App Testing in… Read More »Testing hiveonline VSLA Technology in the Field
UPDATE: hiveonline stopped working on the CARE eArziki project in March 2020 after mutual agreement to end the partnership. While the savings group application was developed and tested, it did not go live and was not used by groups in Niger.
Last week hiveonline’s Anne Namuli, headed to Pretoria, South Africa to participate as a session panelist on “big data and data analytics in the global south” at the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries (TWAS) Innovation Bridge/Science Forum South Africa (SFSA). Drawing on her… Read More »hiveonline’s anne namuli presents on “big data and data analytics in the global south”
To many of us, we see banks as a necessity; like schools, transport or food shops. They’re part of the familiar infrastructure of modern capitalism, and we would struggle to function normally without them. Yet did you know that as many as 1.7 billion adults remain unbanked—without an account at… Read More »What are banks for?
Leveraging Design for Low Literacy and Connectivity Back in July, Sofie and Latif travelled to Niger for the launch of the hiveonline community finance platform in conjunction with CARE Niger. Since then, we have been hard at work developing digital VSLA solutions and incorporating feedback in product design to address… Read More »VSLA Finance Designed with users in mind