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Ted Alcorn

@tedalcorn
5 posts
2021-11-14
Cash transfers democratize aid but also concentrate power. In Togo, where a single family has ruled for 50 years and opposition parties boycotted the 2018 election, the program was built on a voter database. Researchers couldn't rule out that it excluded political dissenters.
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Bloomberg

How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license or national ID card, built a digital platform to rapidly disburse relief payments to millions of people

In two weeks, Togo designed and launched an all-digital system for delivering monthly payments to millions of people—and made the U.S. program look like a “dinosaur.” Tweets: @tfad...

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As minister-of-all-things-digital @cinalawson put it to me, “I don't need to know your name to know that you need support. That's revolutionary.” https://twitter.com/...
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Bloomberg

How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license or national ID card, built a digital platform to rapidly disburse relief payments to millions of people

In two weeks, Togo designed and launched an all-digital system for delivering monthly payments to millions of people—and made the U.S. program look like a “dinosaur.” Tweets: @tfad...

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But the speed and scale of benefits distributed were “mind boggling,” per @CGDev' Anit Mukherjee. And @Ugentilini, who has thought long+hard about this stuff, wondered if it represented “momentum for a new social contract between state and citizens.” https://blogs.worldbank.org/ ...
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Bloomberg

How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license or national ID card, built a digital platform to rapidly disburse relief payments to millions of people

In two weeks, Togo designed and launched an all-digital system for delivering monthly payments to millions of people—and made the U.S. program look like a “dinosaur.” Tweets: @tfad...

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Early in the pandemic I set out to learn what governments could do as Covid pushed tens of millions into poverty. I found an answer in Togo, West Africa, which built a vast mobile #cash transfer program in a matter of weeks. My feature in this week's @BW: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Bloomberg

How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license or national ID card, built a digital platform to rapidly disburse relief payments to millions of people

In two weeks, Togo designed and launched an all-digital system for delivering monthly payments to millions of people—and made the U.S. program look like a “dinosaur.” Tweets: @tfad...

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With help from @UCBerkeley researchers Emily Aiken & @jblumenstock, Togo used machine learning, satellite images and cell phone data to identify people in need remotely and (in partnership with @GiveDirectly) sent aid with no in-person contact. https://www.nber.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-14 View on X
Bloomberg

How Togo, a country where few possess a driver's license or national ID card, built a digital platform to rapidly disburse relief payments to millions of people

In two weeks, Togo designed and launched an all-digital system for delivering monthly payments to millions of people—and made the U.S. program look like a “dinosaur.” Tweets: @tfad...

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