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Banking Swaziland's unbanked
Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27270 Banking Swaziland's unbanked Strydom, Ian kevin.thring@undp.org Thring, Kevin Conrad Change Swazi society Smart cards Social system Banking unbanked UCTD Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2008. The attention of information, communications, and technology (ICT) designers, developers, implementers, consultants, and venture capitalists, in the banking arena, has been focused on the corporate sector and on the commercial and corporate applications of ICT. Banking technology usage such as those by lower-income communities, have been marginalised and largely left unattended. During the past five years, activities, behaviours, and attitudes of the financial services industry increased, in favour of the under-serviced mass market. Global growth of electronic payment banking systems and usage has brought about a considerable amount of technological advancement. The low-income market has become a subject of interest by ICT solution providers, banks and credit-offering incumbents , academics, government, and alternative non-banks and non-governmental organisations (NGO’s). Despite the global increase in interest and technology usage, the inability to act on the augment, within the borders of Swaziland, is the primal focus of this research. Swaziland’s mass market can be transformed and banked through the proper deployment of ICTs. The ability to bank the un-banked, in viewing ICT as the enabler of the small society along with its various communities; those excluded because of cultural and educational restrictions; physical location and low income constraints; the disabled etc., can be achieved. This dissertation investigates and analyses the present situation of banking in Swaziland, the related entities involved, and attempts to formulate an appropriate strategy for the successful implementation of a suitable banking solution in the Swazi context. This includes the recognition that access, to any ICT, in itself is insufficient, and illustrates, through the use of community informatics (CI), systems theory, change management theory, and the essential pre-study towards the utilisation of ICT deployed on a grand scale. Informatics unrestricted 2013-09-07T11:04:58Z 2008-08-15 2013-09-07T11:04:58Z 2008-09-30 2008-08-15 2008-08-15 Dissertation 2008 C101/eo http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27270 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08152008-101226/ ©University of Pretoria 2008 C101/ application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Change Swazi society Smart cards Social system Banking unbanked UCTD Banking Swaziland's unbanked |
| title | Banking Swaziland's unbanked |
| title_full | Banking Swaziland's unbanked |
| title_fullStr | Banking Swaziland's unbanked |
| title_full_unstemmed | Banking Swaziland's unbanked |
| title_short | Banking Swaziland's unbanked |
| title_sort | banking swaziland s unbanked |
| topic | Change Swazi society Smart cards Social system Banking unbanked UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27270 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08152008-101226/ |