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Geodata Technology Moving Into New Fields. Literally.
Geodata and ICT applications help farmers with precision farming, leading to increased yields and improved quality. This information has not yet been made available to financial institutions at a large scale, but it has the potential to increase access to finance for smallholder farmers. The Rabobank Foundation and NpM have launched a Board of Inspiration to help speed the process.
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It’s Global Health: Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Easy
Recent elections around the world have shown a tilt toward protectionism and nationalism, and that's not necessarily good news for global health. But, as we've seen during Health Care Month at NextBillion, those in the sector aren't taking their eye off the ball. Vanessa Kerry of Seed Global Health summarized: "Public health is an endeavor far greater than any nation’s individual interests or borders."
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From Robotic Exoskeletons to ‘Uber’ for the Disabled: How Social Tech Startups Can Transform Health Care
Today, thanks to technology, individuals and startups can tackle issues that previously could only be addressed by governments and big business – including health care. Here, in advance of June's AVPN Conference in Bangkok, the social tech acceleration program Tech For Good recognizes five companies that are harnessing technology in innovative ways to solve health care and safety issues.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Six Promising Approaches for Scaling Health Care in Low-Resource Settings
Many health care interventions in low-resource settings are able to achieve initial impact, but the challenges are so great that few models have the potential to scale. However, Nakul Goswami, associate vice president of Intellecap Innovation Labs, has identified a few innovators showing promise. He explores why they work, and what other health care providers serving vulnerable communities can learn from their models.
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Why Health Care Remains Poor in NGO-rich Haiti, and How Social Enterprises Can Fix It
Haiti is well known for its high concentration of aid-driven actors; no other country in the world has more NGOs per capita. And that's not a good thing. It's led to a chaotic marketplace which adversely impacts vulnerable people, according to Allison Howard-Berry of Care 2 Communities. She believes, however, that a social enterprise approach to health services in Haiti can work, in time, and describes how.
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A Goal Within Sight: How Blindness Prevention Can Empower Women and Boost Emerging Markets
Ninety percent of the world’s visually impaired population live in low-income settings, and many lose their sight simply because they don’t have access to eye care. Women, who make up two-thirds of the world’s blind people, are especially at risk. Orbis, which partners with local hospitals in emerging economies to create customized eye care training programs, suggests it's time to rethink health care, and to do it through the lens of gender equity.
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Redefining Global Health: Nations Ascending vs. People Cured
Dr. Vanessa Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health, which helped establish a novel public-private partnership designed to address the shortage of health professionals in emerging economies. Kerry, who will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University, talks about sustainability in global health, overcoming current political challenges and true corporate citizenship.
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- Health Care
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Home Sweet Home: Mobilizing Microfinance for Housing
Only 2 percent of microfinance portfolios consist of housing loans. Why? The authors say it's because housing languishes in the “household spending” category; it's not income generating, so it's somehow less deserving. It will soon be in the spotlight, however, as the eighth European Microfinance Award focuses on what financial institutions serving the world’s poor can do to address their housing needs.
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- Investing
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