Thinking mobile

Map mobile and fixed line communication, courtesy of the Slate/New America Foundation.

Check out a map of current global mobile money deployment.

 

State finance and regulation

Map the spread of the French and British Empires (courtesy of Wikipedia) -- particularly fascinating to consider in terms of the civil law and common law models that they used, respectively, and which may inform the approches to legislating innovative financial practices that former French and British colonies take today.

The recent EU euro crisis, explained using lego toys.

 

Financial inclusion

Visualize recent changes in how we talk about financial inclusion.

Where are Kiva microfinance lenders, where are borrowers, and what have they been doing for the past 5 years?  Check out this cool visualization to find out.

 

 

 

 

 

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