Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

🏥 A call center providing real-time medical guidance to 40,000 health workers in Ethiopia.   🐝 A mobile application empowering 400,000 small-scale beekeepers in India to improve hive management sustainably.   📱 A platform helping refugees access lifesaving information and resources on a global scale.   These are just some of the winners of our AI to Accelerate Inclusion (#AI2AI) Challenge. We, alongside partners Dasra and DataDotOrg, are excited to help scale these solutions, which includes pairing funding assistance with resources and technical assistance to supercharge their impact.   Payal Dalal, our EVP of Global Programs, sat down with Dasra co-founder Deval Sanghavi to share learnings from our global challenge in a deep dive conversation with Aleksandra Berditchevskaia and Humanitarian AI Today. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gsz_Fa_Z   #AI #financialhealth #economicgrowth #technology

Why does driving economic opportunity for everyone matter? Simply put: the more people who can transact in the digital economy safely and with ease, the more resilient and prosperous our communities and businesses become.   For more than a decade, the Center has leveraged Mastercard's assets, resources and data to foster financial inclusion around the world. We’re working to bring 1 billion people into the digital economy and have already brought in 50 million small businesses to date.   From using AI to help small businesses grow, to protecting them against cyber threats, our President Shamina Singh speaks with Jon Miller at Brunswick Group about how we’re building engines for prosperity while keeping small businesses and communities safe and secure: https://lnkd.in/ek6H5Gba   #economicgrowth #financialhealth #AI #digitaleconomy

Together, we can build a more resilient, sustainable future. At the Global Inclusive Growth Summit on April 24, we will explore how technology, partnerships and innovation can foster #economicgrowth and opportunity for all. Sign up for first access to Summit content: https://lnkd.in/gDFzD3cU #GIGS25 #GrowthSummit

Get ready for the 2025 Mastercard Global Inclusive Growth Summit. We'll be back on April 24 with inspiring discussions, groundbreaking ideas and public and private sector decision-makers who are working together towards a more prosperous future. There's something for everyone on our dynamic agenda: 💼 Small business 📈 Financial health 🌐 Cyber trust 🌆 Urban mobility 💻 Tech innovation Sign up now to watch all the discussions first: https://lnkd.in/gkwM6XjV #GIGS25 #GrowthSummit

"AI development is a process that requires openness, transparency, dialogue and collaboration," says Payal Dalal, our EVP of Global Programs, in conversation with Riya Anne Polcastro of TriplePundit, on ensuring #AI solutions can work for everyone.    That is why the Center, alongside DataDotOrg, launched the Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Inclusion (#AI2AI) Challenge to help identify and scale AI-based solutions that are creating impact around the world. Our cohort of five winners' AI solutions range from helping small businesses access capital in Colombia to supporting health workers through an AI-run call center in Ethiopia.   Ensuring multiple perspectives, experiences and datasets are used to create AI solutions leads to better outcomes. Read on to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gMnN-CKC

“The ultimate goal is financial health. We're on the journey with customers to ensure they see financial services as an enabler to ensure a healthy and hopefully prosperous life for them and their families.” Hear from Shamina Singh around our work bringing people and businesses into the formal economy, expanding the benefits of data and AI to all segments of society and the importance of philanthropy to derisking business models in this episode of Heads Talk: https://lnkd.in/g3akX6JH #economicgrowth #economy #AI #data #philanthrop

Ade Adepitan and Andréa Vieira return to anchor the 2025 Mastercard Global Inclusive Growth Summit, with discussions on creating long-term economic growth and opportunity for all. Sign up for unlimited access to all videos first: https://lnkd.in/gcpn5qZZ #GIGS25 #GrowthSummit

Running a small business in a rural community is no easy feat, especially when facing inadequate financing opportunities and a lack of technology and internet connectivity. Mastercard is helping equip rural businesses to compete more strongly in a digital-first economy – check out this inspiring story from Mississippi to find out how ⬇️    #DigitalEconomy #SmallBusiness #DigitalTools

Just one month left until we return with the 2025 Mastercard Global Inclusive Growth Summit 📈 Get unlimited access to all conversations on how technology, data and public-private partnerships are building financial health and resilience for everyone. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gZCuuc9U #GIGS25 #GrowthSummit

The 2025 Mastercard Global Inclusive Growth Summit returns on April 24. This year, we’ll explore the transformative potential of technological innovation and partnerships to deliver long-term economic growth.   Sign up for first access to Summit content: https://lnkd.in/eHubCCjw   #GIGS25 #GrowthSummit