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Twitter Top Ten
It was a big week in the Twitterverse as POTUS – after six years in office – finally joined the fray. There were also plenty of Big Thoughts in the world covered by NextBillion, and we combed the scrolls to bring you some of the highlights.
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- Health Care
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Weekly Roundup: Natural Born Entrepreneurs: Why veterans make great businesspeople – and how the U.S. could help them succeed
As the U.S. salutes its veterans this Memorial Day, one of their under-appreciated contributions to the country is drawing increasing attention: their affinity for entrepreneurship. We discuss the reasons behind this phenomenon and the ways the public and private sectors are supporting it, in this roundup.
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- Social Enterprise
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Will the ‘F-Word’ Damage Mobile Money?: The industry deals with a spate of high-profile fraud cases
Trust is one of the key factors that will ultimately determine the success or failure of mobile payments. That’s why recent headlines about fraud in prominent mobile money platforms, from Apple Pay to MTN Money in Uganda, have raised eyebrows in the industry. Mondato’s Chris Connolly discusses these cases, and finds that the headlines don’t tell the whole story.
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- Technology
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How Do You Know You’re Really Reaching the Poor?: Tips for microfinance providers considering digital services
Though many microfinance institutions operate in impoverished areas, they often have little or no objective poverty data on the clients they’ve reached. Pride Microfinance wanted to avoid this problem when it rolled out its digital financial services programs this year, so it worked with Grameen Foundation to measure its social impact. The lessons it learned can be valuable to other MFIs considering going digital.
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- Uncategorized
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Exploring the Base of the Pyramid in Latin America: A new IDB report and conference will discuss this vibrant, evolving market
Latin America’s BoP now encompasses 406 million people and represents a market of $760 billion. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will explore this market in a new report, to be released at the BASE III Forum, June 29-July 1 in Mexico City. In this Q&A, Luiz Ros, Manager of Opportunities for the Majority at the IDB, provides a sneak peak at the report and the forum.
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- Education
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Access and Equity in Reproductive Health: Ensuring equity through a total market approach
A "total market approach" is a strategy to empower all sectors, public and private, to more efficiently reach specific market segments, increasing the demand for family planning products. How to build a TMA and why the NGO PATH is pursuing the model with governments in low-income countries.
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- Environment, Health Care
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NexThough Monday – Facebook.org’s Budding ‘Walled Garden’: What it could mean for Internet consumers, developers in emerging markets
If Facebook.org becomes a significant part of the mobile Internet landscape in emerging markets, the model that it establishes may become the de facto standard. Yet Facebook remains firmly in control of regulating participation – and thus innovation – writes Bryan Pon, Research Director for Caribou Digital.
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- Technology
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- infrastructure
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Twitter Top Ten
This week brought a number of developments in global health, social enterprise and financial inclusion - some promising, some disturbing, and one bittersweet. As usual, we’ve highlighted a sample of the reaction to these events on Twitter, along with some long-form pieces that vividly describe some of the big challenges and small triumphs in the sectors we cover.
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- Education, Health Care
