A wealth of financial inclusion knowledge was shared, exchanged and debated by industry leaders during the opening day of the 2012 AFI Global Policy Forum in Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday.

And a lot of that information emerged on Twitter as the conversation unfolded. AFI staff and GPF participants documented comments from AFI Executive Director Alfred Hannig, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) CEO Tilman Ehrbeck, Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Njuguna Ndung’u, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty, Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF) Governor Barry Whiteside, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Governor Nestor Espenilla Jr., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Financial Services for the Poor Director Rodger Voorhies. and many more experts.

For a recap of the top tweets from the forum, click here to view the article “Global Policy Forum 2012 – Day One #GPF2012” on Storify. To join the conversation, continue to follow the hashtag #GPF2012 on Twitter for live tweets from the forum throughout the week.

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