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Safaricom Launches M-Pesa Card for Point-of-Sale Payments
Already, the leading mobile service provider has signed up 13,000 customers in Nakuru to the newly launched M-Pesa 1Tap service.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, mobile finance
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Report: Leveraging digital to unlock the base of the pyramid market in Africa
The level of formal banking and insurance penetration across Africa remains low due to the fact that consumer spending power for the majority of the population is low and unsteady. This has been seen as a hindrance to providing products and services through traditional distribution models, even though this market represents the majority of spending power in Africa.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ASEAN and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Speaking at the forum’s opening, Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged his fellow leaders to ensure the region’s massive youth population is properly equipped for the jobs of tomorrow. “The Fourth Industrial Revolution, with its new technologies, will pose new opportunities and challenges to ASEAN.”
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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From Trash to Resource: How Technology Can Help Informal Waste Pickers Solve India’s Recycling Problem
Due to its dependence on informal waste pickers, urban waste management in India is at once a complex problem to solve, and an excellent business opportunity. Kabadiwalla Connect, a tech-based social enterprise, is using smartphones and innovative logistics to help this informal ecosystem of urban recyclers make a better living and keep untold tons of garbage out of landfills.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise, Technology, WASH
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Six months after demonetization, Kolkata’s first cashless transactors shift back to cash
The winds of change that brought in plastic money and e-payments to traditional shops have blown over. Cash is back.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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New Job Board Feature – FREE Access to NextBillion’s 100,000 Twitter Audience
NextBillion's job board is one of the most active career resources in the social business and global development space – and it's one of the most popular features on the site. We're making it better by tweeting out all new job posts to our fast-growing Twitter audience of approximately 100,000 – for free. To post a job ad, or find a career with impact, visit the job board today.
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Kenya: Risks to Safaricom Outstrip Mere Business
This issue is even more pertinent considering that the electoral agency will require a technology partner to provide results transmission services during the upcoming general election.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian Digital Wallet Company Founder Says Its Biggest Competitor is Cash
Co-founder & Director of India’s leading mobile wallet company expects overall digital payments to contribute 35-40 percent of total transactions in the economy by 2018, citing cyber security as one of the most crucial issues for banks and consumers.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- fintech, mobile finance
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