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Grab Launches Social Impact Program to Upskill Southeast Asians
With the Grab for Good program, the company looks to help around 5 million micro entrepreneurs and small businesses digitize their workflows and processes.
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- Asia Pacific
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An African Solution to the Digital Skills Gap: Preparing for the Future of Work in Emerging Markets
With the rise of artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud computing, the nature of work is transforming. But while many focus on the possible downsides of these changes, like AI-fueled job loss, Becky Santora at Digital Divide Data points out some upsides as well. She explores the new technical and analytical skills necessary in the work of the future – and how emerging markets workers can prepare themselves.
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Fighting TB With Phone Calls: A Project That Reminded Patients to Take Their Medicine
The 99DOTS project was withdrawn from hospitals after only two years, in a move that forced patients to revert to the previous method, which was largely considered inconvenient and unreliable.
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Press Release: The Governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tunisia agree to invest in BLOC Smart Africa
BLOC Smart Africa, the blended finance impact fund dedicated to financing innovative African tech startups, was conceived and developed by Bamboo Capital Partners. Declaration of intention signed during Afric’Up Summit taking place in Tunis to promote African technology startups, innovation and entrepreneurship.
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How E-commerce Platforms Are Facilitating Small Business Owners for Selling Online in India
E-commerce players are expanding beyond metropolitan cities to bring innovative sellers’ products on their platforms.
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- South Asia
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The Development Tool Nobody’s Using: Why it’s Time for the Women’s Empowerment Sector to Leverage Media and Advertising
In women’s economic empowerment circles, there’s no shortage of initiatives involving corporate partnerships with NGOs - often focused on agriculture or garment supply chains. But as Mara Bolis at Oxfam points out, this focus has led the sector to overlook other potential areas of impact – including media and advertising. Sharing some compelling examples, she argues that media could have as much – or even more – influence in shaping women’s economic opportunities as changes to global value chains.
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Press Release: Indonesian Lending Startup JULO Raises $10M Series A2
“Access to affordable personal loans on a short-term basis is often the difference between a family being able to pay for its daily needs like education, or not,” said Adrianus, co-founder and CEO of JULO. “At JULO, we use proprietary credit scoring technology to put money in the hands of people who need it to pay for education, home improvements, or working capital -- all at affordable rates.”
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- Finance, Technology
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Trade War Spurs India-China Digital Embrace
A new wave of Chinese upstarts is challenging, and sometimes outstripping, the U.S. in the race for 5G dominance, AI, and its downstream derivatives such as Smart Cities, Driverless cars, advanced healthcare and Financial Technology (Fintech) products.
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- Technology
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