Bill Gates provides banking

Gates Foundation Pledges $500 Million to Give Poor Bank Access (Businessweek) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $500 million over five years to help poor people get savings accounts, its biggest commitment to improving access to financial services. The pledge will let millions of people who live on $2 or less a day use mobile phones or visit a local store to deposit money, the Seattle-based foundation said in a statement.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-16/gates-foundation-offers-500-million-to-help-poor-save.html

Swedish and South African governments unleash human and economic potential

Dateline: 12 November 2009

Personal communications and basic financial services have joined shelter, education and health care as basic human rights. Within weeks of each other, the Swedish and South African governments have unleashed a visionary future in which cities and the state will be responsible for providing free broadband wireless services and free personal banking to all residents, and visitors. Countries ...