A U.S.-based nonprofit that is using algorithms to identify people living in extreme poverty by analyzing their mobile phone habits has made direct cash payments to 30,000 people as part of a pioneering project in Togo. GiveDirectly worked with the government of the West African nation and experts at the University of California, Berkeley, for the high-tech approach to find some of the country's poorest people. The Berkeley team identifies the recipients by studying data provided by Togo's two main telephone companies. For more on this, see our press release at Berkeley News.