With many flexible options to either buy, build or “lease”, a diaspora portal can be a smart, straightforward connection point for one or more groups to share information and benefit from unbiased knowledge about issues like sending money home that impact them dramatically in their daily lives.

 

Beyond purely information about money transfers or other forms of value transfer, bringing people together to learn about how they can find fellow countrymen and women or share tips for navigating in their host countries or with regards to their home countries, an online portal service is something many agencies have begun to examine as the next generation of what is relevant for their populations.

 

From the perspective of the country of origin for significant migrant populations, it may be helpful, as has been true in the Philippines, for example, to encourage emigration and labour migration as part of public policy and fiscal planning.  In such situations host countries are looking ahead to strategically drawing their diaspora towards productive financial and cultural connections. Assisting the support of a stronger diaspora community and providing more and informed choices for the direction of their funds is a wise future planning endeavour.