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How A Drunken Chipmunk Voice Helps Send A Public Service Message
A new game called Polly, designed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, helps get useful information to people with little or no reading skills.
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- Education, Health Care
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PRESS RELEASE: Juntos takes customer engagement platform to Africa through partnership with Tigo Tanzania
Juntos announced their partnership with mobile money provider company Tigo Pesa in Tanzania, to provide new account support to Tigo Pesa customers through the Juntos innovative engagement platform.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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As Antibiotic Resistance Spreads, WHO Plans Strategy To Fight It
The world is losing some of the most powerful tools in modern medicine. Antibiotics are becoming less and less effective at fighting infections. The problem has gotten so bad that some doctors are starting to ponder a "post-antibiotic world."
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New Mothers Get A New Kind Of Care In Rural Nigeria
How do you help a country struggling to provide quality health care, particularly to its rural citizens?More doctors would be great. New and better clinics would help. But in some places, community health workers are an important part of the solution.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fighting poverty by helping find jobs
Dedicated to connecting the right job seeker with the right employer in this unstructured segment, Bengaluru-based start-up babajob.com uses the internet, mobile apps and a variety of other routes.
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- Education
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- South Asia
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This Startup Pays African Students to Learn How to Code
Most twenty-somethings in Nairobi are underemployed—and most also can't afford to pay for college to get better jobs. On a trip to the Kenyan capital to give a talk about the future of education, edtech pioneer Jeremy Johnson was asked a difficult question: How is it possible to scale high-quality education if people can't pay for tuition?
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Toilet In Every Home: Zambians Celebrate Sanitation Milestone
A recent daylong event celebrated a milestone in Zambia, where the practice of defecating in the open is all too common. In April, Chienge, in the northernmost province of Luapula, became the first district in Zambia to be declared free of open defecation by the government.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Key to a Global Nutritional Crisis Might Be a Simple Iron Fish
In 2009, Christopher Charles came up with a surprisingly simple and astonishingly effective tool to increase dietary iron intake without resorting to pills: A small metal fish – a symbol of luck in Cambodian culture – that can infuse food with the proper amount of necessary iron to ensure better overall nutrition.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition, public health