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Infradigital Helps Indonesian Schools Digitize Tuition and Enrollment
A growing list of tech companies are working on solutions, from Payfazz, which operates a network of financial agents in small towns, to digital payment services from GoJek and Grab. As a result, financial inclusion is increasing for consumers and small businesses in Southeast Asia’s largest country, but one group remains underserved: schools.
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- Coronavirus, Education
- Region
- South Asia
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The UN Development Goals Are ‘Seriously off Track,’ an Expert Says
Reducing inequality within and among countries is a Sustainable Development Goal that is not progressing, as evidenced in demonstrations that erupted in many parts of the United States and abroad this year.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Impact Assessment
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- financial inclusion, SDGs
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India’s Self-Help Groups Need Help: How to Strengthen a Proven Model to Support Women’s Recovery From the COVID-19 Crisis
Women’s empowerment is a growing focus in the development sector, but COVID-19 is putting the hard-won progress women have made in recent years at risk. Moin Qazi highlights one way to support women in emerging countries: the self-help group model. He discusses how these groups operate in India, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they could be leveraged to address the current crisis.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Finance, Impact Assessment
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Viewpoint: COVID-19 Forced a Billion Children Out of School – Here’s How We Can Save Their Education
The world must take steps to mitigate the damage of COVID-19 on education.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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Interview: How COVID-19 Will Affect Impact Investing in India
Geeta Goel, country director, India, of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, talks about the need for responsible capitalism
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- Coronavirus, Education, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Nigerian Schools Are Being Forced to Rethink Their Digital Limits and Education Models in a Pandemic
Despite the increasing emergence of edtech startups offering digital learning models, the delivery of education in Nigeria has mainly been through in-person learning taking place in classrooms with very little embrace of digital options by schools.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital inclusion, edtech, startups
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COVID-19 and Higher Education: How Universities in Emerging Economies Are Responding to the Crisis
Universities in emerging economies are playing a key role in the response to the coronavirus crisis through cutting-edge research and development (R&D) and pioneering approaches to learning.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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Edtech Startup Gradely Wins MEST Africa Nigeria Challenge, to Compete For $50,000 Africa Prize
Gradely offers personalised learning with tools and content that can support students’ learning process through its online platform.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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