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Mobile Banking Apps in Developing Nations Have Weak Security
The developing world is increasingly using mobile banking apps to move money, but new research shows those apps are often poorly coded and pose security risks.
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Smaller Players Challenge Telcos for Piece of Kenya’s Mobile Money Market
Kenya’s mobile money transfer market is headed for interesting times, with the latest results from the regulator showing small ‘outlier’ firms eating into the market dominated by the well-established players.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Phone Usage to Drive Africa’s Economy
Information communication technologists are optimistic that mass mobile phone usage launched in Africa, will drive the continent’s economy and make the millennial generation to become the leading tellers of the emerging app economy.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google, Apple, Xiaomi and Foxconn Rush in as India Becomes World’s Hottest Smartphone Market
China may be the world’s biggest mobile market, but all eyes in the tech industry are now turning toward India, with its rapidly growing appetite for smartphones.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Weekly Roundup – 8/8/15: A solution to a perennial global health problem – and all the world’s other ills! – highlight this week in development
This week was marked by some hopeful - perhaps even overly hopeful - events in global development. We cover the highlights, from a malaria vaccine to the U.N.'s new development goals - along with a dispatch from Kenya's never-ending mobile money wars and a thought-provoking point from Melinda Gates - in this roundup.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Africa: Workshop Enhances Use of Mobile Phones to Detect Diseases
Health experts from the African continent and beyond are meeting in Tanzania at a workshop to enhance community-based disease outbreak detection and response in East and Southern Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Saving Mothers and Their Babies: Innovators working to solve problems in the hardest-to-reach regions of the world
Saving Lives at Birth recently nominated 17 promising ideas to add to its impressive and growing group of innovators. These newest innovations rose to the top from a pool of more than 750 submissions, more than half of which came from low- and middle-income countries. The program will be announcing additional nominees for transition-to-scale awards (up to $2 million) later this year.
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Weekly Roundup 8/1/15: Kenya gets a pat on the back, then a lecture, and the Internet roars about Cecil
It was all about Africa this week, as President Obama (and a surprising tech luminary) visited Kenya, the country's Catholic bishops made a stunningly ill-considered public health intervention, and a lion-killing dentist in Zimbabwe became the latest person to break the Internet. We cover these developments in this week's roundup.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology