Rural villages in the developing world are oral cultures; that is cultures in which the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most people.
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Oral Culture: A Car with Legs?
Posted in Orality, The village, tagged literacy, microfinance, numeracy, oral culture, saving, technology, Walter Ong on December 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Why Not?
Posted in Microfinance, Orality, tagged accountability, democracy, icon, loan contract, oral culture, oral tool, orality, tally, thumbprint, transparency on December 2, 2010| 4 Comments »
Why are there not finger-counting icons and/or tallies (see right) on every passbook owned by every illiterate client in microfinance?
This small change could make microfinance more comfortable for poor borrowers and poor savers, and contribute in a small way towards our shared goal of ‘access for all’. (more…)
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