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Fintech firm Payworld focuses on insurance, loans for growth
Payworld, a nine-year old fintech firm, provides digital transaction services like mobile recharge, e-payment, railway reservation and remittances facilities.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech, insurance, lending
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To Feed the World, Improve Photosynthesis
By reworking the basic metabolism of crops, plant scientists hope to forestall devastating food shortages.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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Microsoft has found an inexpensive way to save lives in India
Microsoft Research India works on projects in areas of machine learning, natural language processing and it explores creating technology for emerging markets. One of the projects, 99DOTS, has looked at low-cost ways to ensure tuberculosis patients regularly take their medication
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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How this social entrepreneur is bringing banks to the fingertips of the unbanked
Humaniq was launched in 2016 with a vision to build a world where the unbanked and underbanked around the world also have access to the banking and financial transactions. An estimated 2 billion people can be brought under the umbrella of financial inclusion with Humaniq’s services.
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- Technology
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- North America
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Cheap 3D printed prosthetics could be game changer for Nepal
Ram's new hand was manufactured on a 3D printer in Nepal's capital for just $30, an innovation that could be a game changer for many in the impoverished Himalayan country.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Tiny biotech firm offers Big Tobacco model to curb its nicotine habit
The plant biotechnology company says it has more than 200 patents that give it the ability to increase or decrease the level of nicotine in tobacco plants, as well as the level of cannabinoids in cannabis plants.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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- public health
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Leapfrogging is overrated, says a Harvard development professor
Juma points out that no advanced economy got where it is today by cutting corners and sidestepping (that is, leapfrogging) industrialization.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Making Hardware Easier: ASME ISHOW Helps Expand Social Impact of ‘Frugal Technologies’
There are few resources to help “frugal technologies” and their makers succeed. That’s the problem that ISHOW, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' innovation showcase, tries to solve. The competition draws on ASME’s network of engineers, industrial designers, product specialists and diligence and standards experts, as well as venture capitalists and business specialists, all of whom are keen to see hardware innovation achieve a new level of positive impact.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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