

Dvelo.org is thrilled to soon be working with two outstanding east coast students. Nishit Shah joins Dvelo’s web development team in their continued efforts to add new features, improve back-end efficiency, and make the site easy to use! Will McQuain joins Dvelo in Cape Town, South Africa beginning May 18th. Dvelo lead researcher by day, World Cup fanatic by night, WIll McQuain has an action-packed May and June scheduled for him.
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Alex Counts, President and CEO of Grameen Foundations challenges many of claims made by Neil MacFarquhar, NY Times columnist.
Over the course of the last year, it has become fashionable to criticize publicly microfinance.
“the interest rates MFIs charge consumers are too high”
“pricing isn’t transparent to investors or clients”
“is microfinance really helping anyone?”
Dvelo maintains that a critical eye is good for the industry. We are certain that the reality we have seen unveiled on the ground in the communities time and time again will, over time, unveil itself in the public eye as well.
The superstar iPhone app “Words with Friends” was created in Dallas. What’s D-Town’s next digital superstar?