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Ericsson partners with Verifone on mobile money in emerging markets
Kit giant Ericsson has announced a partnership with Verifone Mobile Money to offer its customers a broader range of mobile payment tools for emerging markets.
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- Environment, Technology
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5 African e-health startups to watch
Africa’s basic infrastructural challenges – such as poor transport links, and the limited number of medical professionals and clinics – have long hindered the health sector. However, across the continent, Africa’s innovators are looking to leverage technology to ensure quality medical care is universally accessible.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile phone access in Africa set to double in next five years
Eighty percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s 800 million people should have access to mobile telephones by the end of the decade, industry body group GSMA said Wednesday.
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JHU undergrads design tool to support family planning efforts in developing regions
New kit may help train global health providers to insert and remove contraceptive implants.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Life With A $100 Smartphone: How Low-Cost Phones Are Rapidly Changing Lives In India
Bharath Kumar has the husky build of a rugby player, which comes in handy as he lugs around a large backpack filled with packages to deliver on his patch of Bangalore. That and ownership of a good scooter or motorcycle were among prerequisites the 25-year-old met about a year back when he switched jobs so he could motor around town, sometimes listening to music, delivering packages from Amazon.com’s Indian unit.
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- Technology
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NexThought Monday – Needed: A New Kind of Infrastructure: Digital infrastructure must be a priority – and the need goes beyond technology
For decades, the development community has stressed the importance of infrastructure, usually focusing on things like roads and water systems. But to ensure that the benefits of the mobile revolution reach the world’s poor, we now need to consider digital infrastructure as well. And as USAID’s Nandini Harihareswara describes it, this must include more than cell phone towers and Internet cables.
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- Technology
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To Make India Truly Digital, Target the Poor, Not Rich
America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the powerful regulator for all communication, has proposed that poor citizens of the US should have subsidised access to the internet via broadband.
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- Technology
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Twitter Top Ten
Unlike in the world of global soccer, this week in global development was marked by a fair amount of positive news. We captured some of it in this week’s Top Ten list, which features everything from mobile money momentum and impact investing resources, to promising health care innovations - along with a couple of cool videos.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Technology
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