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Zimbabwe: Telecoms Firms Embrace Innovation to Survive
AS technological convergence redefines business models across nearly every industry, mobile telecommunications companies have shown a growing appetite for innovation in order to survive and thrive in a fast-paced and unpredictable environment.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Science focus urged at first US-African leaders summit
Science and technology must be at the heart of the debate at the first-ever US-Africa Leaders Summit that starts today, policy experts argue, as they call for 100,000 new science graduate places in the United States for Africans over the next ten years.
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- Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile tech on the Africa health frontier
Billions have been spent to bring AIDS medicines to patients in Africa, but a technology with just as much lifesaving potential can be had for pennies: the text message.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: New World Bank safeguards are pushing more money out the door at the expense of the poor
Last week, the World Bank released a draft of its proposed new environmental and social safeguards.
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PRESS RELEASE: USAID and Rockefeller Foundation Announce $100 Million Global Resilience Partnership in Africa and Asia
?WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Rockefeller Foundation announced today a $100 million Global Resilience Partnership that lays out a bold new vision for building resilience to chronic stresses and increasing shocks in communities across Africa and Asia.
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NexThought Monday – Financial Inclusion and the Internet of Things: How Smart Machines Can Benefit the Poor
The Internet of Things refers to the use of technology to automate data transfer between objects via the Internet. It’s billed as a disruptive technology of the next decade, with applications that range from home automation to wearable fitness devices. But it also has great potential to benefit the poor, by enabling payment mechanisms that let the underbanked access basic products and services.
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- Energy, Technology, Telecommunications
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Smartphones, apps reshaping the health sector
WASHINGTON: Your smartphone is not only your best friend, it's also become your personal trainer, coach, medical lab and maybe even your doctor.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Health insurance comes to Nigeria through mobile phone subscriptions
Quality healthcare is often out of reach for many living in rural areas, but MTN in Nigeria initiated as program together with Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to provide affordable healthcare to its subscribers in the country.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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