John Won

Designer, ally, and facilitator who learned Human-Centered Design at @IDEO @IDEOorg and focuses on community building & financial inclusion in emerging markets

[John Won @wonjinkyu]

A 3-year journey from listening to farmers to launching a new mobile-savings product—I’m excited to share today how #HCD-inspired #Save4School helps smallholders save for their children’s future with partners @econetzimbabwe #ecofarmer @mercycorps #AgriFinMobileZim @CGAP @IDEOorg

[John Won @wonjinkyu]

@CassavaSF 🌳 Oakland please! ❤️

[GiveDirectly💸 @GiveDirectly]

To date, we've raised over $388k to give directly to low income families in the U.S. hardest hit by COVID-19. Payments are going out this week. To donate, visit: https://t.co/jOwVZjhZru

[Wol-san Liem @wolsanlim]

At 9:00am today, Korean railway workers began an unlimited strike calling for 1) reintegration of the highspeed rail 2) increase of safety-related staff and reducing of working time 3) insourcing of outsourced jobs and 4) payment of back wages

[Catalyst Fund @TheCatalystFund]

Team #CatalystFund is in #SF this week with our portfolio companies for #SOCAP19, kicking off the day with a #designthinking workshop on building trust across the #customerjourney #inclusivefintech #fintech #startups

[Catalyst Fund @TheCatalystFund]

Design thinking expert @wonjinkyu takes the team and our founders through critical areas where companies can build #trust along the #customerjourney, during portfolio workshops at #SOCAP19

[jesse @jessehrensaft15]

“Around the same time that the piers were under attack, trans women of color in the meat packing district were also under attack by the NYPD”, Stefanie Rivera of @SRLP at the Fenced OUT biennial exhibit at the @whitneymuseum

[Justice Committee (now on bsky!) @watchthecops]

Make no mistake, theres a direct link between poverty & violence. Its been proven time & time again that more cops/NYPD, prosecutions & lengthy jail sentences do not end violence. There needs to be an investment in low income communities. #DivestInvest

https://t.co/pFaRyIxG1O

[Justice Committee (now on bsky!) @watchthecops]

As we mark 50 yrs since Stonewall, we celebrate the revolutionary legacy of #SylviaRivera, #MarshaPJohnson, #MissMajor and all the trans women who continue to fight for liberation. The fight is far from over. #TransFutures #STONEWALLISNOW @FwdTogether @gapyouthmedia @folklaurel_

[BFA Global @BFAGlobal]

Are you between the 18 – 35 and are based in Kenya? Get creative! Enter our design competition. Expression of interests due 8th July. Apply here https://t.co/j0uJrnYKvm #IkoKaziKe

[Joo-Hyun ([email protected]) @JooHyun_Kang]

Happy fucking #Pride . As someone who organized w/Sylvia Rivera b4 she passed, I'm sure she'd approve this message. Also:
1. Stonewall was a street rebellion fought for days by trans folks of color, homeless youth, lesbians + against NYPD racial/gender/class profiling & violence

[John Won @wonjinkyu]

“Old songs that sang to the old sadness you always kept as close as skin without meaning to…This was what it sounded like to make it through these hundreds of American years, to sing through them. This was the sound of pain forgetting itself in song.”
—Tommy Orange, There There

[John Won @wonjinkyu]

“[Michael Beirut] calls it an evolution of the octothorpe, but the vocal masses can’t un-see a “penis swastika” or a quartet of ducks.” 🔨Logo bashing: The internet’s favorite sport @qz obsession https://t.co/1VGn8IDaxr

[John Won @wonjinkyu]

Last year I helped @BFAGlobal explore how merchants in emerging markets are finding side hustles through online platforms & superplatforms, i.e., selling on Instagram & WhatsApp. What it takes to build trust online, however, posed many challenges for many of these entrepreneurs.

[FIBR @FIBR_BFA]

Building trust in #digitalcommerce: 3 strategies for #MSEs & #merchants to create and maintain trust with their customers online https://t.co/6KDDbEA2oA
#brandtrust #superplatforms @AmoloNgweno @gann12 @wonjinkyu @janedelser @BFAGlobal

[John Won @wonjinkyu]

"Research published in a major medical journal concludes that a parachute is no more effective than an empty backpack at protecting you from harm if you have to jump from an aircraft.

But before you leap to any rash conclusions, you had better hear th..." https://t.co/22e2N8lOOO

[#AfricaFintech @FintechList]

#Fintech developers in #Africa, here is a hack you will appreciate.

“Automate any USSD Service on Android” @thebenedict of @useHover
https://t.co/KHldvBUYCo

[Gerhard Coetzee @gkcoetzee]

@CGAP report on digital credit mentioned at Responsible Finance Forum that just started in Dar es Salaam

[Nodutdol | 노둣돌 @nodutdol]

One of the best articles written by non-Koreans regarding the Pyeongyang inter-Korea summit.
https://t.co/EON4gFsJSl #peaceinkorea #koreanpeacetreaty

[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

Worth remembering that Kavanaugh is a hard-line, radical right-winger who would surely bring down Roe v Wade, hammer workers' rights, and undermine government regulation. We were supposed to ignore all this and focus on how fine a man he is.

[Peter Kawumi @pkawumi]

At @CGAP 's #customercentricity workshop, we're learning how important it is to think about experience right across the entire customer journey. @fsduganda

[Peter Kawumi @pkawumi]

There are real business benefits (customer retention, increased transactions, etc) to empowering employees and agents. Day 2 of @CGAP 's #CustomerCentricity workshop. @fsduganda @joelanthony23