Writing

A practical ambition: understandable services, useful records and a clear route to resolving problems.

2 minute read · Partnerships, Trade and customs

A useful partnership record follows the work from agreement to the point where people can use the result.

2 minute read · Partnerships

The GoPomelo, Tencent Cloud and Techtanium alliance opens a practical discussion about systems, responsibility and service.

2 minute read · Partnerships

The useful follow-up to a logistics partnership is a clearer account of traders’ costs, working capital and journeys.

2 minute read · Trade and customs

Fees, records, support and settlement: a useful service should make these answers easy to find.

2 minute read · Trade and customs

A plain-language look at the TAFFA/TACAS programme and the information an agent needs before using a service.

2 minute read · Tanzania, Trade and customs

The Korosho programme brings an everyday question into focus: what happens between preparing a payment and the farmer receiving it?

2 minute read · Tanzania

Farmers and clearing agents need systems that make the next step clear. That is the practical ambition behind the Tanzania work.

4 minute read · Tanzania

The continent has mastered the act of moving money. The next opportunity is to connect each transaction to the institution, record and decision that give it meaning.

3 minute read · Payments infrastructure, Trade and customs

The fee is the part everyone quotes. The waiting, the rekeying and the second trip are the part that actually decides whether a small trader can make a living.

3 minute read · Payments infrastructure, Trade and customs

Moving the money is the easy part. Agreeing on what was owed, by whom, and on what evidence, is where institutions actually get stuck.

4 minute read · Payments infrastructure

A registration number is easy to quote and easy to check. Here is what it proves, what it does not, and how anyone can verify it without specialist access.

3 minute read · Public records