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Digital technology can help reinvent basic education in Africa
The digital revolution currently under way in the region has led to a boom in trials using information and communication technology (ICT) in education – both in and out of the classroom.
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- Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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M-pesa users up 50% in three markets – Vodacom
Reporting its results for the six months to the end of September, Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said m-pesa customers and transaction numbers grew impressively in Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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African Economic Growth Rides on Wireless Rails
From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, hand-held phones are letting people become their own ATMs, increasing economic activity by enabling payments for food, travel, school and business. Wireless communication is driving economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa much as the railroad did in the 19th-century U.S., accounting for almost a tenth of global mobile subscribers and a growth rate that's beating the world.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: Village Capital, PayPal launch African fintech investment readiness program
Global venture capital (VC) firm Village Capital has collaborated with US payment platform PayPal to launch a three-month investment readiness program, Village Capital Fintech Africa 2018.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Technology cannot solve all of Africa’s problems, but it can help with many
That tech and innovation can play a big role in making some countries richer than others is not in question. About half the differences in GDP per person between countries are due to differences in productivity.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: South African Fintech Startup JUMO Awarded $150 000 Prize by Mastercard Foundation for Client Help
Mastercard said in a press release yesterday that close to 100 financial service companies around the world submitted entries to the competition. An international panel of judges selected three finalists who presented to the audience at the 2017 Symposium on Financial Inclusion in Accra, Ghana.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Formula for Health Equity
What could an economically advanced country like the United States possibly learn from the health-care success of a tiny, impoverished African country like Rwanda? Two things: how to broaden access and improve health outcomes while sharply reducing the cost of care.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya’s political opposition is asking supporters to stop using M-Pesa mobile money
Just as he urged his supporters to quit the vote, Odinga now called on them to cancel their subscriptions with the country’s biggest mobile operator and to not purchase dairy products from Brookside and cooking oils from Bidco.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech