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Two Companies Approved To Run South Sudan’s First Mobile Money Platform, m-Gurush
Theventure is a joint partnership between South Sudan’s Trinity Technologies Limited, a local tech firm, and Zain Telcoms South Sudan.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan Betting Firms Say Payment Systems Suspended Following Government Order
Online sports betting companies such as SportPesa have grown rapidly in the East African nation in recent years, riding a wave of enthusiasm for sports to achieve combined revenue of 204 billion shillings ($2 billion) last year.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public policy, regulations
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The Gap in Internet Speeds Is Widening Between Low and High Income Countries
While global average speeds increased 20% over the past year, much of that growth has happened in developed nations which are already home to established connectivity infrastructure.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya Regulators Warn MPs on Safaricom Split Bill
The issue of competition in Kenyan market is an issue politicians and regulators have regularly investigated over the last two years, with calls to spin-out mobile money units nothing new.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Simplify International Development Research: An Intriguing Experiment (Involving NextBillion)
International development professionals must often spend a great deal of time trying to keep up with news, trends and research about their area of activity – and this requires a lot of manual labor. But much of this can now be automated and aided by artificial intelligence (AI). Jacob Rosen and Ashirul Amin at BFA explore how they used AI to sort and categorize a vast amount of development-focused content online, using NextBillion's 5,000+ article library as a test case. The results of their experiment show how AI can help people reduce time and labor and learn more efficiently.
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- Finance, Technology
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Spotify Unveils ‘Lite’ App for Slower Phones in Emerging Markets
The company is counting on Spotify Lite for a much-needed boost in markets with lots of potential.
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- Technology
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The Return of Michael Joseph at Safaricom
Following his appointment by the board as the interim CEO, Kenyans on social media argued that the company should have appointed a Kenyan, with one of the firm’s executives trending on Twitter.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Blockchain Blossoms in Haiti
As a developing economy, Haiti faces unique challenges — the country is more traditionally associated with earthquakes than with tech innovation. Haiti today is a hotbed of applied blockchain projects, projects that are expanding our understanding of the technology’s potential.
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- Technology
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- agtech, blockchain