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Marketing the ‘Real Cool Honey’ Sachets: Launch lessons from Asali Poa in Kenya
Find a product-market fit and then execute flawlessly. Both are tough and have high risks that you need to overcome with the launch process. Here are a few big lessons from Honey Care Africa’s little sachet of honey, which we call Asali Poa (translated as "real cool honey"). We launched the product commercially in 2014 in Nairobi and currently reach 3,000 points of purchase.
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- Technology
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The Cloud-Based Tool Improving Healthcare Across the Developing World
Part of a series profiling the finalists in Unilever’s Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards, Daniel Yu explains how his social enterprise, Reliefwatch helps track and deliver essential supplies.
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- Health Care, Technology
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What If We Gave Microcredit to Tech Talent in Developing Countries?
Outsourcing things like call center work and data entry to developing countries has been a trend for a long time, but those are mostly low-skill, low-paying jobs.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- microfinance
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OPINION: Ebola Survivors in West Africa to Share Stories via Mobile App to Help Fight Stigma
Ebola survivors in the three West African countries worst hit by the epidemic will share their stories through a mobile application to be launched on Monday, in a UNICEF-backed campaign to inform and fight stigma around the disease.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Automated Mobile Phone Service Hopes to Stop Spread of Ebola in West Africa
People in rural areas of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea battling Ebola could be helped by an automated phone service that offers advice about how to avoid contracting the virus.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Combat Malaria with Mobile Phones
Martin Edlund likes to say that malaria may one day be the first disease beaten by mobile phones. Yes, he happens to be the CEO of the non-profit Malaria No More, so he has to say stuff like that. But no, it's not a total pipedream.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to combat malaria with mobile phones
Africa, where malaria kills around 400,000 children every year, is set to top 1 billion mobile phone subscriptions by next year. That means that public health researchers will have one billion ways to communicate with -- and collect data from -- the people who are most at risk of catching malaria, a disease that has traditionally been extremely difficult to track.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bringing HIV Labs by Backpack to Rural Africa
Daktari is planning to roll out its portable CD4 tester in 2015 across sub-Saharan Africa. The Daktari device is part of a new wave of lab-in-a-backpack instruments that can bring diagnostic testing directly to patients and health workers in the developing world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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