Eight

Digital design: NGO providing basic income to African villages

Eight provides unconditional monthly cash transfers to people in extreme poverty for two years. Eight demonstrated in a pilot project - which ran from January 2017 to January 2019 - that it is possible to give money directly to people in poverty without relying on large institutions or large budgets. Simple cell phones, mobile money and the support of a small but committed group of entrepreneurs and effective altruists made this possible.