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title: Meeting Notes - RWF 2020-08-31
tags: [rwanda]

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# 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        - Outdated a few years back.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


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- 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?