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Banyan: An Endeavour for Gold Standard in Recycled Plastic
The bustling metropolis of Hyderabad generates about 4,500 tonnes of solid waste every day. Contrary to popular perception, as much as 70% of the waste is recycled in India, thanks in large part to a network of ragpickers, who scavenge heaps of trash everyday to pick products that can be recycled.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Viva Senegal: How This West African Nation Became Africa’s Quiet High-Tech Titan
All too often conversations on the digital scene in Africa look to the East - focusing on the gains being made in Rwanda and Kenya in particular.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Device Uses the Net to Tackle Deafness
About 3-million people in SA suffer from hearing loss. Every year, about 4,000 people become deaf due to antiretroviral and tuberculosis treatment. Early detection through screening tests could halve this number.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Phones4Power: Using Mobile Phones to Run Micro-Grids in Africa
Kenya-based business SteamaCo is harnessing the power of mobile to bring affordable electricity access to rural, off-grid communities. SteamaCo’s smart technology allows solar micro-grid owners to monitor their performance remotely and capture consumer payments via mobile money platforms, thereby overcoming the traditional challenges of keeping grids working reliably and profitably.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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New App Helps Farmers in Kenya Find Climate-Smart Seeds
A new app launched in Kenya June 10 could help millions of farmers adapt to climate change by offering information on the best seeds for changing growing conditions, agriculture experts said.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Philips launches innovative ultrasound to boost healthcare access for South African mothers
Royal Philips has launched a new ultra-mobile ultrasound system VISIQ to the South African market. The size of a tablet, the VISIQ is the first ultra-mobile system from Philips.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This High-Tech Vision Test Could Make the World See 20/20
While providing charity eye care in Haiti, Joel Kassalow noticed that a complex eye-testing machine was essential, unwieldy and too costly to buy in multiples — and it became a bottleneck in giving people necessary care. So he offered an innovation he’d created at his company, Smart Vision Labs: a version of the same machine at one-fiftieth the weight and one-hundredth the cost.
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- Health Care, Technology
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In Global Fight Against HIV, China’s Circumcision Device Makes the Cut
China wants a bigger slice of the global health market and it has a new tactic for getting it: circumcision.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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