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Curing Pilot-itis for mHealth
How do you take mobile health projects beyond the pilot stage in low- and middle-income countries? Build for scale and sustainability from the start. That's the goal of a bot for Messenger built for the South African National Department of Health’s MomConnect maternal health platform, and launched this week at the International AIDS Conference.
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Three Growth Strategies to Boost Sri Lanka’s Microfinance Sector
Sri Lanka's microfinance industry is expected to reach maturity in the next few years, so market penetration growth strategies will shape the growth of successful players. But there is limited industry research on the country’s microfinance sector. Intellecap has attempted to bridge this gap by presenting the following market opportunities and growth strategies, based on conversations with leading practitioners, policy makers and capital providers.
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Making Impact Core to Education Companies’ Business Strategy
India's education sector faces many daunting challenges, including proving economic and social value. With so many hurdles to cross, education companies must still make quantifying their impact – and communicating those findings to the masses – a priority.
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- Education
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Harnessing Mobile Technologies to Make Matatus, and Kenya, Safer
Kenya's roads are deadly due in no small part to accidents involving "matatus," the ubiquitous minibuses. A key problem: The more passengers they pick up, the more matatu drivers get paid. So Echo Mobile and a team from the University of California at Berkeley recently launched the SmartMatatu project to study driver behavior and how they might be incentivized differently.
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Swine Flu Adds to Brazil’s Zika Worries
Brazil, which will host the Olympics beginning Aug. 5, was already beset by economic problems, a political crisis and the Zika outbreak. Now it's experiencing its worst swine flu outbreak since 2009. Dr. Melvin Sanicas, a program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, wonders if this will be the crisis that forces a change to the Olympic schedule.
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Beyond the Lending Club Scandal – Why Marketplace Lending is Still Needed in Emerging Markets
Renaud Laplanche, the CEO of industry pioneer Lending Club, resigned in May amidst rumours of fraud and malpractice. Since then, critics have been trying to write off marketplace lending as a flawed business model. But it's too early to discount the value of the entire industry – especially as it emerges in markets like India and China to address the critical needs of SMEs.
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Last Mile in Style
Zipline, a Silicon Valley drone manufacturing firm, has contracted with the government of Rwanda to make last-mile blood deliveries. Starting this month, the drones will make between 50-150 deliveries per day to 21 transfusing facilities located in the western half of the country.
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Partnering to Provide Safe Surgery
There are vast, unmet gaps in access to safe surgical care around the world, with devastating health and economic repercussions. That's why Smile Train and Lifebox are working to equip local health care facilities with the resources, training and technology necessary to make surgery safer.
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