Small businesses and AI: Accelerating innovation and inclusion

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Highly confident, women entrepreneurs still face systemic barriers

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How data and AI can drive change: 4 ways forward

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Unlocking the power of small businesses to drive climate-smart inclusive growth

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This Colombian startup is transforming cities like Bogotá by enabling small businesses and their customers to buy and sell online. The CÍVICO platform offers an app for small business owners to create a digital presence for their businesses. By providing an easy tool to buy and sell online, this app has helped many MSMEs stay in business during the pandemic and contributed to the growing digital ecosystem in the city, improving the quality of life for small business owners and their customers. (article available in both English and Spanish)

Accion is a global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing. We catalyze financial service providers to deliver high-quality, affordable solutions at scale for the three billion people who are left out of – or poorly served by – the financial sector.For more than 50 years, Accion has helped tens of millions of people through its work with more than 90 partners in 40 countries.&nbsp;Since their founding in 1961, Accion has worked tirelessly to empower people who are underserved, revolutionizing financial services for people who are left out.

Accion

Accion Accion is a global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world, with a pioneering legacy in microfinance and fintech impact investing.

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How 30,000 small businesses moved online during the pandemic

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