Bankers Without Borders

Bankers without Borders® (BwB®), a Grameen Foundation program, aims to harness the skills and services of the world’s brightest minds and institutions to support social entrepreneurs working with the low income segments. It partners with Fortune 500 companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Google, higher education institutions, and professional associations to connect social enterprises with talented professionals in such areas as banking, financial analysis, technology, marketing, and human resources.

Together, we create solutions that help low income segments people to generate income, build assets, strengthen their resilience and manage risk.

The BwB team at Grameen Foundation brings together expertise in managing software development projects with multiple vendors right from the inception, through delivery and in production during support phase. We work with our trusted software development partners for delivering quality solutions. Our expertise lies in the following –

• Work with technology-focused solutions and innovations for financial literacy, health, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, which improve efficiency of end users and improve standard of living.
• Identifying and managing infrastructure for cloud and physical hosting of the software solution, managing software development and IVR vendors, managing support activities help clients to manage their systems.
• Project management – end – to –end technology solution development project management.
• Business Analysis / Requirement gathering /Client needs identification – Understanding and formulating problem to be solved – End user is our focus and our aim is always to see how the end user – the low income segments or the women will benefit from the technology solution.
• Partner vendor identification and vendor coordination
• Defining technology solution that enables to resolve the client’s problem – translating client problem to software requirements
• Supporting delivery and roll out

In the last five years, GFI’s BwB team has implemented numerous technology projects in the areas of mHealth – Maternal and Child Health Care, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS where mobile based applications have reached out to patients, mothers as well as health care workers – from increasing awareness and bringing about behaviour change amongst patients and mothers to improving quality and efficiency among healthcare workers.

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