--- tags: rwanda --- # Meeting Notes - RWF 2020-08-31 - Majority of people live in the rural areas - Companies are not solving problems they are meaning to solve - Rwanda youth, using telephones - Opporutnity to solve some of the problems, moving forward after covid19. - More people buying stuff online - Goverment advocating using mobile money transfers - MTN using 0 fee - When it comes to bitcoin, because rwanda wants to position themselves as a tech hub in rwanda - is it for buy and sell - Got tempted to buy bitcoin - Contact from linkedin reached out - Link to buy bitcoin and they show you the benefit percentages - Looks like a scam - Every village in rwanda uses mobile money in rwanda - Why is the goverment promoting it? - Political / Financial Reasons - Push Cashless transfers as a tech hub in Rwanda - Fiber optic all over the country being - People may not have a bank account but have a mobile wallet account - On the border younger more educated vs villages - Demographics of Rwanda - Is young - How do they make transactions - Difficult to get, how might we get this informaiton? - Outdated a few years back. - Being on the field might allow us to dig a little bit deeper, with local contacts. - Over 60% is young ---- - jersey financal services - financial center of kigali, relationship with jersey - created program call one cow per family, great milk production - rwanda and many countries, of graduates and employeers - basic skills to be employable - educate employers on how to treat staff - seasonal jobs for 9 months ## Tasks - [ ] what kind of information do you want for the providers? - [ ] What kind of information do you want for the country?