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Mastercard: In Colombia, Building Businesses by Bridging the Digital Divide

3BL Media

While these enterprises comprise more than 99% of the country’s businesses and generate nearly 80% of Colombia’s jobs, they still struggle with income volatility and are underpowered when it comes to accessing the digital solutions they need to build resilience and grow. To learn more about Mastercard Strive, watch the video above.

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Digitizing the path to decarbonization

GreenBiz

Sponsored: To drive climate action, we must move fast and move together — and we can do so by combining the real and the digital worlds.

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Transforming Daily Lives Through Digital Savings

3BL Media

To combat challenges of manual savings, CARE Sierra Leone collaborated with MikashBoks which is a global adaptable digital platform. The Pilot In Sierra Leone 81 traditional VSLA groups participated in the pilot and were transformed into a digital framework in collaboration with MiKashBoks. Was digital data collection beneficial?

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Mastercard: Growing Africa’s Digital Economy From the Soil Up

3BL Media

These smallholder farmers often live in remote areas with little connectivity, leaving them with no digital footprint and limiting their access to better prices, loans and innovative agricultural inputs like climate-resistant seeds. Digital identities are the gateway to accessing digital services and to high-quality inputs.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Key Takeaways: MES Impact 🌐 Discover the true value of MES for improving productivity and cost savings Case Studies 🏆 Learn how leading manufacturers have turned their challenges into triumphs Simplicity & Scale 📊 Walk through practical steps to simplify the adoption of MES and other digital tools, avoiding common pitfalls Sustainability (..)

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How the water sector's digital transformation will help achieve SDG 6

GreenBiz

The water sector is now in the early but accelerating stages of learning the value of adopting digital technologies to solve water scarcity and quality issues.

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What does digital art have to do with sustainability?

GreenBiz

What does digital art have to do with sustainability? His prize was a digital drawing by the artist beeple, who just a couple weeks earlier had sold a series of pieces for $69 million , the highest price paid for digital art. Fundamentally, they allow for the unique differentiation and ownership of digital goods.