Jaana Nyfjord's Page

Sala Allehanda, the local newspaper of my hometown Sala, announced my dissertation by publishing an article describing my research work. The article is attached below. Thank you Sala Allehanda!

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Dr Nyfjord

Five years of research work is delivered. My PhD disseration took place on September 26th at DSV. Prof. Pekka Abrahamsson from VTT Research Centre in Finland was my opponent. Indeed, what a brilliant day! It certainly belongs to one of my most interesting life experiences.
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For those interested in learning more about the MiCOpA project, please visit http://www.spidercenter.org/upl/filer/504.pdf.

SPIDER (Swedish Program for ICT in Devloping Regions) funded the MiCOpA project.

My first blog post describes briefly the MiCOpA project, which took place in 2005. The photos were taken during our visit in Bangladesh.

Micro credit is a methodology for giving loans to the poor in developing countries, i.e. the majority of whom is deprived of the services of conventional banks. Micro credit organisations ar

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