08.02.2012 User Meetup

Agenda

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Session

Description

Presenter

Time

Introduction

We will also have an introduction of everyone on the call so the community can get more personally connected.

Ed Cable

5 min

Implementer Show & Tell

Sahadev Kunapuli, Rudrama Macs

Sahadev

15 min

DiscussionSamiha J update | Discussion on PPI/Social Performance ManagementEd10 min

Demo/Tutorial

Roll your Own Cloud AMI in Amazon EC2 (TBD)

Conflux

15 min

Open Office HoursSupport/feedback  

On the Call

  • Keith Woodlock (Ireland)
  • Sahadev (Rudrama Macs - India
  • Aliyu Umar (Nigeria)
  • Ashok - (Conflux - India)
  • Shiva - (Hugo - India)
  • Kiran Manne
  • Lassaad (Enda - Tunisia)
  • Marco - (Quipu - Peru)
  • Marie Esther (Quipu - Peru)
  • Nayan (Conflux - India)
  • Zayyad - (Intrasoft - Kenya)
  • Miguel Joia Santos (Mozambique)
  • Ed - USA

Notes

From: http://sync.in/JUYu76SUFv

Agenda:
  • Presentation from Sahadev at Rudrama Macs
  • Roll your own Cloud AMI in Amazon EC
  • Social Performance Management discussion (PPI/Question Groups)
  • Open Office Hours Discussion
Mifos at Rudrama MACS
  • Sahadev has played an instrumental role at the deployment. 
  • Sahadev drove all the data migration himself and brought on participation from IT team. 
Rudrama MACS presentation
  • Started 14 years ago by two individuals in 1 village - grown 140/150 villages in 2 states in India
  • Initially Rudrama MACS received support from OxFam for administrative purpose through 2003 and then was operating independently
  • All members are women, all of the board of directors are women, majority of employees are women.
  • Institution is self-supported by internal resources only, no external resources - follows individual lending, group guarantee and approval members.
  • Loans are based on saving accumulated by members, thrift savings 9% per annum - for every 1R of savings, get 3R of loans.
  • Loans rate of interest is 18% per annum Diminishing balance.
  • Hardware/Upgradation - led to 15-20 day delays. 
  • Couldn't get information from software - none of board, staff - in terms of interest overdue
  • Looked for Mifos and chose because: 
  • Power only available for 12 hours. 
  • Local language is very important - staff only familiar with this.
  • Nearby and local partner in Hugo
  • Offline Data Capture
  • Collection sheet extracted every 2 months and then uploaded back into Mifos
  • Shows amount due to members, displays amount collected, data is back to office in afternoon,evening
Future Needs
  • Need automatic receipt generation to present fraud
Public AMI is just available in US East (virginia) region
Will create one in Singapore and send you the updated documnet by Saturday