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Google Drives AI to Boost Agriculture, Enrich Cultural Data in India
Google unveiled its new Agricultural Monitoring & Event Detection API, offering field‑level crop insights updated fortnightly, and launched the Amplify Initiative to build hyperlocal datasets across Indic languages.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Bringing Digital Transformation to the Water Sector: How New Technologies Can Boost Water Access in LMICs
Digital technologies have the potential to revolutionize the management and distribution of clean water in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). But according to Ellie Gabel, an environmental science writer at Revolutionized, many countries don't have access to these technologies, or lack the capacity to implement them. She explores this challenge in the context of Kenya, and discusses five essential factors that may aid or hamper digital transformation in the water sector across LMICs.
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- Technology, WASH
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MCFA Signs Agreement With Bidhaa Sasa in Kenya to Scale up Access to Electric Cooking
With the EUR 2.3 million in MCFA funding, Bidhaa Sasa will scale up sales of electric pressure cookers targeting up to 100,000 primarily female customers in rural areas of Western and Central Kenya.
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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It’s Time to Rethink Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Introducing ‘Access-as-a-Service’
As global health funding contracts, traditional brick-and-mortar healthcare delivery models are becoming financially and operationally unsustainable, in Africa and across low- and middle-income countries. Joanne Peter at Jhpiego and Rob Beyer at Villgro Africa argue that this raises the need for innovative new pathways toward universal health coverage. They propose one such approach, developed through their work at the HealthTech Hub Africa: "Access-as-a-Service," a model that combines in-person care options with first-line healthcare provided through digital channels.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Viewpoint: Open Source Software Trap: Our Fatal Business Model Flaw
"... as I watch our sector implode under the weight of USAID’s near-total elimination, I realize we’ve built a movement that’s structurally impossible to sustain."
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- Technology
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: BlueGreen Water Technologies Partners with Winrock International to Combat Harmful Algal Blooms Across the Globe
The partnership will leverage Winrock's deep experience in agricultural systems and nature-based solutions to optimize watershed management strategies.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- human rights, partnerships, scale, water
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Rwanda Launches Innovate4DigiJobs to Boost Youth Opportunities in the Digital Sector
This program is focused on empowering young people in Rwanda with actionable digital skills and facilitating access to meaningful job prospects in the country’s rapidly evolving tech landscape.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cape Town’s Open Access Energy Raises $1.8 Million to Scale AI-Driven Electricity Trading
Cape Town-based startup Open Access Energy (OAE) has secured $1.8 million (R32.3 million) in seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform for electricity trading.
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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