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Kenya denies mass mobile phone surveillance plan
Kenyan mobile phone firms have been ordered to install equipment to allow the telecommunications regulator to monitor activity on their networks. It means the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) would have the ability to listen to calls, read messages and view financial transactions.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan Banks Have Joined Forces to Launch a Mobile Money Rival to M-Pesa
Nearly ten years after its launch, M-Pesa finally has what could be a major competitor in the multi-billion dollar mobile money transactions business.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Microsoft Helps Build a Mosquito Trap With Brains
A smart trap for mosquitoes? A new high-tech version is promising to catch the bloodsuckers while letting friendlier insects escape — and even record the exact weather conditions when different species emerge to bite.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Stop Wasting Food … and Feed the World
Productivity isn't the only variable in the effort to increase the world's food supply; one-third of all food gets lost or wasted. Science for Society Techno Services claims its solar conduction dryer increases the shelf life of perishable produce by six to 12 months, and the firm even buys processed food from farmers and takes their dehydrated produce to market.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Tanzania: Mobile Cash Transactions Rise Five-Fold Over the Past Year
The amount of cash transacted across networks of mobile phone platforms reached Sh988.9 billion during the second half of last year as telecom firms become an increasingly important payment avenue, giving commercial banks a run for their money.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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How Philips is Using AI to Transform Healthcare
Data scientists have begun betting on the use of machine learning, deep learning, Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help in the early detection of diseases and advance healthcare. Leading the way on the road to healthcare analytics are the world’s five largest medical device companies—Johnson & Johnson, GE Healthcare, Siemens, Medtronic and Philips Healthcare.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Creative Climbing: How Impact Enterprises are Overcoming Obstacles in East Africa
In 2016, Intellecap undertook a study to better understand how East African impact entrepreneurs manage to design viable business models despite the various market challenges. The insights from the study can inform inclusive development in the region and across the global south. The study classified impact enterprises across three levers based on their interaction with the BoP: access, ability and knowledge.
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- Agriculture, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Mastercard Commits to Financially Including Over 150,000 Kenyan Merchants With Masterpass QR
Mastercard commits to empowering over 150,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in Kenya within 2017 by giving them access to Masterpass QR. The mobile driven, Person-to-Merchant payment solution will be introduced through various financial institutions and other partners in the market from February onwards.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa