Digital Bootcamp Labs

Are you in the process of building your online presence and facing challenges? Would you like to make  the most of existing online marketing opportunities?

For Microfinance Professionals

The Bootcamp Labs are designed for Microfinance Professionals that are undertaking a challenge of building a solid online presence of their organizations and who would like to further develop their practical know-how in online marketing.

For MFIs, that want to be in the forefront of digital marketing and offer clients outstanding online and digital channel experience. They have already invested time and resources into digital marketing and elements of loan process happen online.

Interested MFIs should nominate internal staff from the marketing and/or operations department to participate in the hands-on digital labs.

Bootcamp Labs format

Hands on experience practical 2h online sessions will be hosted on Zoom platform. The participants learn from the experience of an expert by presenting their digital presence system. More than one person per MFI can participate.

BootcampLabs

Building innovative teams: how-to-guide || 2h webinar

Join 2h virtual workshop to build your innovative team Tuesday December 14th, 11:00 – 13:00 CET (Berlin / Warsaw / Sarajevo) Diagnose and move on: during this 2 hour virtual workshop, we are diagnosing the preparedness of your team to embrace innovation in digital context. We are helping you reviewing the way your team brainstorm new ideas and opportunities, analyze and implement decisions, and its effectiveness for becoming more competitive. If you are a member or a leader of a team consisting of peer managers, or you want to implement in your organization more cross-functional work, stimulating new solutions, than

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Credit scoring

Automating credit scoring in MFIs || 2h webinar

Join 2h virtual workshop to learn about good practice and key pitfalls Tuesday November 30th 11:00 – 13:00 CET (Berlin / Warsaw / Sarajevo) Automated credit scoring for small consumer loans is widely used among MFIs, but the design and implementation of these solutions is not always straightforward and some important technical and methodological aspects are sometimes overlooked. Join us for the 2h virtual workshop, during which we will focus on credit scoring and the challenges inherent to this application. We will start by discussing the different types of scoring and their specific functions. We will then put ourselves in

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Digital payments for MFIs and their clients || 2h webinar

All you want to know about digital payments in microfinance Tuesday November 23rd, 11:00 – 13:00 CET (Berlin / Warsaw / Sarajevo) Join Mastercard and  their partners to learn  everything about digital payment solutions available for microfinance institutions. In this 2 h webinar, we are talking about virtual card payments in virtual reality, including use cases. Next, we are discussing the options for virtual client identification, available for MFIs. In the end, we are presenting Ukrainian Moneyveo – a successful peer to peer transfer example. We are talking only about practical solutions for MFIs. Our experts Christophe Zehnacker Mastercard VP,

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You may also be interested in our two linked seires of webinars: Digital Literacy Bootcamp and Leaders in Digital Era – click and check the topics!

Project description /  background

The digitalisation of the MFC members has started. MFC undertakes steps to support members in this process: the BootcampLabs are a platform for practitioners to develop in practice their digtal solutions, be it digital marketing or digital service delivery. The BootcampLabs are the advanced edition of Digital Literacy Bootcamp.

Project status: active

Project duration: 2021

Project regional focus: ECA

Partners and Funders:

The Bootcamp Labs series are free of charge due to kind support of our donors:

Project Objectives

The project Digital Bootcamp Labs aims at providing microfinance practitioners with opportunity to test and develop their digital solutions. The participants of online sessions work hands-on-experience – they deal with practical examples of what they do on daily basis and share experience between peers. The digital expert provides the missing know-how and experience.

Key Activities

Bootcamp Labs cover analysis of digital solustion submitted by MFIs, a series of 8 online sessions with inputs from expert(s), and a write up of lessones learnt and mini case studies, based on the experienced collected in the process