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New App for Managing HIV Treatment Failure
A health informatics specialist in Rwanda has developed a computer-based application to help clinicians reduce medical errors in managing HIV treatment failure.
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Assured Labor Raises $6.75M, Has Connected Workers With 100K Jobs In Latin America’s Informal Sector
Long before LinkedIn went public or before a plethora of on-demand startups began washing the Bay Area and other U.S. cities with services at the click of a button, there was this startup from an MIT grad called Assured Labor.
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- Latin America
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The Year of Mobile Payments
Ask most people what the state of mobile payments is today, and they’ll tell you it’s just kicking off. With Facebook announcing the option to send money to friends via Messenger and the release of Apple Pay last year, 2015 has excitedly been dubbed “The Year of Mobile Payments.” Yet what most people don’t realise is that these services are already lagging 10 years behind.
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MTN & Vodafone Interconnect Their Mobile Money Services
In a move focused at deepening financial inclusion in East Africa, MTN and Vodafone have agreed to intersect their mobile money services.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Faster Internet Access Means More Cyberattacks for Africa
The rapid development of Internet access throughout Africa has not been accompanied by an equivalent increase in awareness of security issues, opening up the possibility of a rise in cyberattacks.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tech Companies Struggle to Get World on Internet
When Sumarni, a 39-year-old woman in a rural village in Indonesia, first cradled a smartphone in her hand about two years ago, her reaction was “bingung,” the word for “confused” in Indonesian. As she looked at the Android phone’s sleek, black surface, she asked herself: “Where are the buttons?”
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- South Asia
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NexThought Monday – How to Unlock the Potential of Young Inventors
I recently met an amazing set of entrepreneurs who are tackling a dizzying array of challenges: developing systems to allow impoverished families in poor countries to heat and pressurize water for bathing, cooking and cleaning; or creating a lawnmower-type machine that harvests and converts crops directly into biomass pellets for fuel. I wasn’t at SXSW or a high-level Silicon Valley gathering, but at VentureWell’s annual Open Conference in Washington, D.C.
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Under Fire In India, Facebook’s Internet.org Launches in Indonesia
Facebook’s ‘free web’ Internet.org program has expanded into Indonesia, a country with a 250 million population, marking its second largest launch in Asia to date.
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- Asia Pacific