About Sonika Manandhar: .
Sonika Manandhar is a co-founder and CTO of Aeloi Technologies, a fintech platform that mobilizes the grassroots economy to reduce climate change by bridging the last-mile impact financing gap for green microentrepreneurs with digital tokens. She has spent nearly a decade as a software programmer in organizations such as Microsoft Innovation Center in Nepal and always driven towards making technology easy for all literacy levels. Previously, as a digital wallet CEO, she gained insights into improving technology and business models for digital financial services. Her biggest strength today is being able to communicate with the grassroots microentrepreneurs and translate that knowledge in building and improving Aeloi's platform to match the grassroots user's needs. She together with her company has won numerous awards from organizations such as the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Welthungerhilfe. She has been named as one of seven in the world, a Young Champions of the Earth 2019, Asia, and the Pacific by the United Nations Environment Programme and National Geographic Emerging Explorers 2020. Sonika holds a degree in computer engineering from Tribhuvan University, was trained in Silicon Valley at Singularity University and Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Follow givingBack podcast and learn more about tech in Nepal. Love Nepal & Promote Nepali .
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Sanjib Lamichhane
Twitter: @sanjib_la
IG: @sanjib.lamichhane
www.sanjiblamichhane.com
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Timestamps:
00:20 | Intro
00:35 | National Geographic Society of Explorers
03:30 | How it all started?
08:10 | Story of Safaa Tempo in Kathmandu
11:45 | Micro-entrepreneurs and Aeloi Connection
12:50 | Digital Tokens for a layman
15:00 | sms based token service instead of an app?
17:20 | Loan mobilization and assurance
19:40 | Licensing
21:30 | Creating a solution with technical knowledge
26:30 | We Grow and Bijuli power
29:45 | Credit History and financial discipline
34:00 | Trolley bus in Nepal
41:07 | Leaders around us
44:00 | Next generation of women leaders in tech
47:15 | attending a Hackathon (funny anecdote)
51:55 | Mentorships and awards from International forums
56:13 | Power button.
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