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‘Mobile Midwife’ Empowers Ghanaian Women: Phone apps provide key information during different stages of pregnancy
Almost everyone in Ghana has a mobile phone subscription. That led a to a collaborative initiative to use cell phones to increase the quantity and quality of prenatal and neonatal care in rural Ghana and improve health outcomes for mothers and their newborns.
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- Health Care, Technology, Telecommunications
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Health conference on social marketing and franchising
The first global health conference on social marketing (SM) and social franchising (SM), the two emerging tools to help India achieve the universal health coverage, will be held in Kochi from December 3 to 5.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Clean Data for Cleaner Cookstoves: Smartphone app helps improve a life-saving product
Premature deaths from air pollution exceed deaths from malaria and AIDS combined. Indoor cooking contributes to this, but though clean cookstove technology is more than three decades old, slow adoption by consumers means these cookstoves still aren’t in widespread use in the developing world. To fix this problem, some in the industry are changing their focus from technology to people.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Telecoms and Banks lock horns over mobile banking in Zimbabwe
The bankers association accuse the mobile telephone operators of exploiting a grey area in the Banking Act.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Four World-Changing Products Dreamed Up by Bill Gates
This holiday season, Bill Gates wants stuff that doesn’t exist. Not for himself, mind you, but for the developing world. Gates has tons of ideas for products that would improve lives there, if only someone would build them.
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- Technology
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Impact Sourcing: What do we know?
Impact Sourcing is a global opportunity to employ high potential but disadvantaged people in the outsourcing sector. The practice has the potential to reach a $20 billion market by 2015. Here’s a summary of a vast array of research charting the growth and the potential.
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- Education, Technology
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- research
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Mobile Health Targets Women: Yet many don’t have mobile phones
Mobile technology can provide maternal care to women across the globe – if more women get cell phones. The problem is phones can be too expensive, and when families can afford only one phone, it most often goes to the husband rather than the wife.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Open source can help the developing world, but it’s not without challenges
Many see open source technology as an ideological tool -- a way to promote freedom in a world of closed, proprietary systems.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology