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Med Air Africa: Mobile Healthcare for the Most Remote Mines
Mines are dangerous places, not least because of their often remote and hostile locations far from medical facilities. Med Air Africa, set up in 2010, is helping to bring medical rooms and equipment, highly trained staff and air assistance to mines across Liberia and South Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Building the ‘Silicon Valley’ for Social Enterprise
Kicking a football around as a teenager on the streets of southeast London, my heroes in 1990s Britain were the poster-boy soccer stars of that era who would adorn my bedroom wall.
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D.light raises another $10.5 million to grow its solar-powered products for off-grid communities
D.light, a for-profit social enterprise that makes solar-powered products for “off-grid” communities, has raised another $10.5 million in funding, taking its total financing to more than $40 million over the past quarter.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar, venture capital
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GetBucks Goes for the Bucks in Botswana
The Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) has approved the Programme Memorandum for the Note and it is anticipated that the Note will be listed on the BSE on Monday, 30 January 2017. Proceeds from the first tranche of the Note of up to BWP 200 million will be used by the Issuer to reduce the cost of funding.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Wearable brain scanner among healthcare innovations
A low-cost, brain-scanning device for detecting neurological emergencies swiftly, a biochip integrated with smart phone for DNA-based test malaria test, a point-of-care microscope that detects infection using artificial intelligence (AI) are some of the top 20 ventures selected in the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge (TSEC) 2016-2017.
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- Health Care, Technology
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MobiKwik, Paytm Go Multilingual As e-Wallets Tap Users in India’s Hinterland
Majority of the mobile wallets companies are launching multilingual interfaces as focus shifts to make digital payments and commerce more inclusive and widespread by enabling users to transact in their native languages following demonetisation.
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- Technology
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GameMania Launched Kenya’s First Ever Money Casino Mobile App
Kenyans have been introduced to their very first casino mobile application on Android phones. Rambo Resource Ltd together with the Licensing Board in Kenya announced the launch of GameMania. The app allows mobile users to enjoy online slots machines on the go for free or with no deposit bonuses.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Social Business Roundup: Building Our Immunity to Anti-Vaxxers, Solar Loans With a Side of Health, and SRI Goes Robo
There’s a crisis of trust in the world, some of it well earned – and some, like skepticism about vaccines, completely unwarranted. We cover an alarming uptick in the anti-vax movement's profile, an effort to pair solar loans with health care in Ghana, and the emergence of "robo-SRI" in this news roundup.
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- Energy, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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- ESG, impact investing, solar, vaccines
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