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Weekly Roundup – The Indispensable Platform: The growing importance of mobile access to businesses that serve the poor
With over 50 percent of people in the developing world having access to a cell phone, mobile access has become an indispensable platform for businesses and services focused on the BoP. We discuss its impact and potential in this week’s Roundup.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Impact Assessment, Technology, Telecommunications
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Lease-to-Own Energy: Part 3 of our Digital Finance Plus series explores how mobile money is enabling affordable off-grid solar energy solutions
With 1.3 billion living without electricity worldwide, the need for off-grid energy solutions is massive. In Part 3 of our Digital Finance Plus series, Peter Glenn of Fenix International describes how the company uses mobile finance to provide an innovative payment plan that helps make solar energy affordable to people in emerging markets.
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- Energy, Environment
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A Platform for the Poor: CGAP’s Digital Finance Plus explores how mobile money links the BoP to essential services
Digital financial services have progressed to the point where their benefits extend far beyond the confines of banks or telcos. In this series, organized in cooperation with CGAP, we’ll explore how innovative companies from many sectors are using mobile platforms to deliver services that can make tangible improvements in the lives of the poor.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Health Care
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USAID, Hillary Clinton Launch Global Development Lab for Game-Changing Innovations
The event will take place in New York, with Hillary Clinton delivering the keynote address, following an internal launch and a USAID town hall discussion earlier this week in Washington, D.C.
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- Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Technology
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- governance, nutrition
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New climate innovation centre launched in Ethiopia
A new climate innovation centre which aims to help jumpstart clean technology and climate-smart ventures has been launched in Ethiopia. Called the Ethiopia Climate Innovation Center (ECIC), it is expected to help more than 3.1 million people increase resilience to climate change and create more than 12,000 jobs in the next 10 years.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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Off Grid Electric gets $7M to ‘light Africa in a decade’
Why do more people live without electricity today than when Edison turned on the first light bulb?For as long as he can remember, Xavier Helgesen has been fascinated with this question. And today, he landed $7 million in financing for his Arusha, Tanzania-based venture, Off Grid Electric, which provides solar energy to people in emerging nations.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, solar
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Empowering People With Cooking Stoves
Imagine spending 30 percent of your income on cooking fuel, inhaling the equivalent of 20 cigarettes daily while preparing meals for your family, and having to send your daughter to collect fuel for hours every day. What sounds like a far-fetched scenario is the reality of millions of people around the world in countries like Nepal, Darfur and Haiti.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care, Technology
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How Crowdfunding Solar Power is Democratizing the Way we Finance Clean Energy
Crowdfunding campaigns for solar power are gaining traction. Pioneering startups like Mosaic are changing how we finance renewable energy.
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- Energy
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