Pursar

10/08/2015

Now open: IPA 2016.
African innovators, apply through 31 October 2015, 23h59 GMT.

http://innovationprizeforafrica.org/

The Future We Innovate

11/04/2015

"For digital financial services to achieve their full impact, we must be deliberate about ensuring that these services are reaching an especially crucial group of economic actors in developing economies: women.
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Women make up half the population. So it is obviously a huge wasted opportunity whenever women are isolated from the economy. However, when women are empowered as economic actors, the benefits touch everyone. Economically empowered women are one of the most important engines of growth in developing countries, and they play a central role in building prosperous communities."

Digital financial tools can greatly improve lives in poor countries, but it is especially crucial to put them into the hands of women, whose role in economic growth is often ignored.

13/11/2014

Congratulations to Modisar, a livestock farm management application for farmers in Botswana on winning the Orange African Social Venture 1st Prize! Congrats to Pubcell Ivory Coast, too, for winning fan favorite with over 20,000 votes!

Many thanks to all of you who voted, ranking Pursar at #4 continent-wide, and #1 in Cameroon out of over 450 total project submissions. Your votes went a long way! We received an interview and some good press to disseminate our efforts. More importantly, your support inspires us to keep working relentlessly on the various challenges that a project like this one entails. Thank you thank you thank you, and as always: stay tuned for project updates!

http://en.starafrica.com/entrepreneurship/orange-announces-winners-of-the-orange-african-social-venture-prize.html

Orange announces winners of the Orange African Social Venture Prize Posted by: StarAfrica.com Posted date : November 13, 2014 at 9:37 am UTC 24 views In: Orange African Social Venture Prize, press release, Top Elizabeth Medou Bedang (CEO of Orange Cameroun), Alexandre Castel (Station Energy Ivoire,…

31/10/2014

Coming your way soon, Troopers! Thank you for all your support :-)

19/10/2014

Thanks so much, troopers, for voting Pursar into the favourite project bracket of the Orange African Social Venture Prize 2014. We racked up 7039 votes for fourth place continent-wide and 1st in Cameroon in barely 3 weeks--thank you!!! Announcements for the ten finalists and four winners will be made on November 12. Waiting eagerly till then!

19/10/2014

Coming soon to a mailbox near you, troopers! :-)

06/10/2014

10/6: Voting continues today at http://oran.ge/1svDsSX. It's as easy as V-O-T-E. Do it now!

Pursar is a digital finance platform that powers low-cost digital and mobile banking for micro finance institutions (MFIs) and cooperatives serving the poor in Cameroon.

29/09/2014

Pursar is currently in the ***TOP 10*** of projects competing for the Orange African Social Venture Prize, so we're shifting gears & introducing likely the EASIEST of all challenges on social media at the moment! The steps are as simple as bebelac, smooth like pap, sweet like cerelac:
1. Go to: http://oran.ge/1svDsSX
2. Click on "Vote"
3. Confirm vote.
4. Repeat from step 1 every day through Oct 8 (10 days from today).
5. Challenge any number of friends by sharing!

In return, actually whether or not you do this, we will keep working to promote financial inclusion in Cameroon. So what are you waiting for? Consider yourself challenged! ;-)

29/09/2014

via TNW: Facebook rival 'Ello' has landed... and everyone wants an invite!

You’ve probably seen it pop up in your Facebook feed. Or maybe someone on Twitter linked to their account. The entire internet is alive with talk of Ello, the anti-Facebook... Keep reading →

29/09/2014

via WIRED: Are you sitting down? We recommend sitting down to read this.

Shellshock is one of the oldest known bugs in history. But its story is not that usual. Early this year, security researchers discovered another bug, called Heartbleed, that has languished in open source software for years. Both bugs are indicative a problem that could continue to plague the internet unless we change the way we write and audit software. The truth is that the net is littered with code that dates back decades, and some of it never gets looked at.