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IBM Teams on First Watson Application in Africa
IBM and Metropolitan Health of South Africa have teamed to create a new health care customer service service based on Big Blue's Watson cognitive computing system.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mapping the Future: What to expect from the BoP Roadmap to be published next week
One year ago, the BoP Summit 2013: Creating an Action Agenda for the Next Decade, brought together over 200 leaders from more than 20 countries to reflect on what we have learned about in the BoP domain in the decade since the BoP concept was first popularized. The result of these discussions - “A Roadmap for the Base of the Pyramid Domain: Re-energizing for the Next Decade” - is a co-created action agenda that will be released next week. How to take part.
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- Education
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Profit motive big hurdle for Ebola drugs, experts say
For nearly four decades, mention of the Ebola virus has evoked death and terror, yet a simple factor—money—has stood in the way of erasing the curse, experts say.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A new challenge
The Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health programme is a decade old. How has it done, and what should it do in the future?
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- Education, Health Care
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Here’s How Nigeria Beat Ebola
It took 18,500 interviews, but Nigeria managed to contain the Ebola outbreak.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Direct-to-Farmer Finance: Business models for serving the hardest-to-reach smallholders
An estimated 90 percent of smallholder farmers lack strong relationships with buyers, limiting their access to finance, inputs, training and other support. And it’s difficult for financial providers to reach them. That’s why direct-to-farmer finance is so important, says Dalberg’s Laura Goldman. She discusses a new briefing on the approach from the Initiative for Smallholder Finance.
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- Agriculture, Education
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Meet the Company That’s Bringing the LED Revolution to the Developing World
Yesterday three physicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for creating blue-light LEDs, which makes the LED white lights we find everywhere possible.
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- Education, Health Care
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How to Make Financial Education Less Boring: Taking it beyond sales pitches and theoretical financial management concepts
Financial education, financial literacy and even financial capability sound both condescending AND boring, says MicroSave. Worse, they fail to clarify what’s on offer to very poor people whose only real incapability is their limited financial resources. This post describes alternate ways financial service providers can offer these customers relevant, meaningful information that isn’t just a sales pitch or theoretical concept.
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- Education