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Harnessing Mobile Technologies to Make Matatus, and Kenya, Safer
Kenya's roads are deadly due in no small part to accidents involving "matatus," the ubiquitous minibuses. A key problem: The more passengers they pick up, the more matatu drivers get paid. So Echo Mobile and a team from the University of California at Berkeley recently launched the SmartMatatu project to study driver behavior and how they might be incentivized differently.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Apollo, Airtel bring health app to Africa
Apollo Hospitals and Airtel Africa have inked a pact to enhance healthcare cooperation across Africa. According to statements fromt he companies, the Memorandum of Understanding is focused on enabling easy access to Apollo specialists in the region.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India and Kenya bolster cooperation in defence and health
India and Kenya on Monday bolstered their cooperation in the field of defence and health with India handing over 30 field ambulances to Kenya, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the gift of a telecobalt cancer therapy machine and the setting up of a 100-bed cancer hospital in Kenya.
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- Health Care, Technology
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WeChat targets mobile wallet technology in South Africa
In November last year, WeChat South Africa launched its wallet tech which allows electronic cash transfers and the ability to transact via cards verified by Visa and MasterCard. This month, WeChat South Africa has partnered with Stuff Magazine to allow readers of the print title to buy featured Incredible Connection products by scanning a QR code via the app.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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M-Pesa enabling transactions for self-help groups in West Bengal, India
Vodafone India has tied-up with West Bengal State Rural Livelihood Mission (WBSRLM) to empower women of Self Help Group (SHG), as an initiative of financial inclusion. The partnership facilitates instant deposits to the bank account of the SHGs by the SHG, using the mobile wallet M-Pesa.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Facebook launches open-source wireless access platform for remote areas
Facebook is clearly very serious about its mission to connect the world and in the process, it has launched solar-powered drones that use lasers to connect to each other and the ground, and more prosaic efforts like new antennas for covering both urban and rural areas.
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- Technology
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Flying an unregistered drone in Ghana could send you to jail for 30 years
Ghana’s Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is starting to take drones seriously—very seriously. It has issued new directives on drone ownership and operations, under which operating an unregistered drone (or “Remotely Piloted Aircraft System,” as the authority calls it) can incur a jail term of “up to 30 years.”
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation
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Research reveals that mobile banking increases financial inclusion
The report, ‘A Quantum Leap Over High Hurdles to Financial Inclusion: The Mobile Banking Revolution in Kenya’, focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, through the lens of Kenya. It reveals that as a result of mobile banking Kenya’s financial inclusion rates have increased dramatically; however, the research also states that Kenya’s success may not be easily replicated in other developing countries.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa