Benjamin Lyon

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Ben Lyon launched FrontlineSMS:Credit in 2009 to bring formal financial services to poor entrepreneurs who do not have access to banks. FrontlineSMS:Credit allows microfinance institutions to leverage mobile money channels in order to send and receive secure payments, disburse and track loans, charge interest and develop a micro-insurance model directly from their mobile wallet. By eliminating geographic barriers to access and lowering operational costs, FrontlineSMS:Credit is at the forefront of financial innovation in rural and disconnected communities worldwide. Lyon is now with Kopo Kopo, which offers a platform that enables small and medium businesses to accept mobile payments and build relationships with their customers.
  • Fellow 2010 Social Innovation Fellows
  • Fellow PopTech 2010
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This week in PopTech: Power poses, health education and mobile money

This week in PopTech: Power poses, health education and mobile money

There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.

At PopTech 2011, Amy Cuddy revealed that we can actually change feelings we have about our own status through the physical positions we take with our bodies. Her research participants Read more »

This week in PopTech: Online music, mobile money and good games

This week in PopTech: Online music, mobile money and good games

Tech@State: Open Source Tweetmap

There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.

Congratulations to FrontlineSMS:Credit on the launch of its new website! 2010 Social Innovation Fellow Ben Lyon founded FrontlineSMS:Read more »

2010 PopTech Fellows: Ben Lyon & Sinan Aral

The 2010 PopTech Fellows have been in Camden all week getting training from PopTech Faculty, networking and learning from and about each other. To introduce the Class of 2010 Fellows and the good work they are all doing, Andrew Zolli ran a short video produced by Beth Cohen of PopTech.

Meet the PopTech Social Innovators class of 2010!

First of the SI Fellows to actually

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