Vodafone Group Foundation grants £100,000 for PDAs
Howard Lake | 22 April 2003 | News
The Vodafone Group Foundation has given almost £100,000 to Opportunity International UK (OI-UK), to provide Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) to its staff overseas, to help it deliver microfinance services to the poor.
The Vodafone Group Foundation grant will fund the implementation of PDA technology in Albania and Romania.
PDAs will enable loan officers to download up-to-date client information from the branch office computer, electronically record client data, take applications and make loan calculations on the spot. New information is easily and quickly transferred to the central management information system, all on the same day.
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John Logan, Director of the Vodafone Group Foundation, says “one of the Vodafone Group Foundation’s objectives is to share the benefits of developments in mobile communications technology as widely as possible. Through this grant we wish to demonstrate our commitment to improve the lives of people all over the world.”
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He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.