Agenda
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Session | Description | Presenter | Time |
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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 |
Discussion | Samiha J update | Discussion on PPI/Social Performance Management | Ed | 10 min |
Demo/Tutorial | Roll your Own Cloud AMI in Amazon EC2 (TBD) | Conflux | 15 min |
Open Office Hours | Support/feedback | | |
On the Call
- Sahadev (Rudrama Macs - India
- Ashok - (Conflux - India)
- Marie Esther (Quipu - Peru)
- Zayyad - (Intrasoft - Kenya)
- Miguel Joia Santos (Mozambique)
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
- 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