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Impact Sourcing: How combining work and study ends the cycle of poverty for good
When we launched Digital Divide Data as a social enterprise in Cambodia in 2001, we quickly realized that providing work opportunities to disadvantaged high school graduates was not enough. In time, we saw that our work-study participants were able to access new professional opportunities and earn higher incomes. Twelve years later, we hope this impact can be scaled up by our organization and others to include many more people and communities around the world.
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- Education, Technology
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Mobilium Smart Health app launched
Samsung and Mobilium Global have joined forces to distribute the Mobilium Smart Health app - a "Made For Africa" mobile health and wellness, smart device application.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Crowdfunding: a New Danger for Inexperienced Investors?
Financial planners may soon have one more investment option to counsel clients about.
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- Technology
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Cleaner cookstoves can boost health and slow global warming
World Bank report calls for action to cut common pollutants such as soot, which could save millions of lives every year
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Can You Hear Me Yet?: mHealth breakthroughs not increasing as fast as the possibilities
How could mobile phones be even more important in the future, if most of the world already has one? Because one day soon they’ll be put to their highest use: saving millions of lives.
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- Health Care, Technology, Telecommunications
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HealthMobile, Nigeria’s first global healthcare app, launched
HealthMobile, Nigeria’s first global healthcare app, has been launched and aims to combine native medical information with user-generated content. HealthMobile is the second mobile app to come out of the HealthBook Project.
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Cigna and Samsung Team Up to Deliver Digital Health Improvement Platform Worldwide
The initial development is focused on delivering health-related tips and articles through the Samsung S Health Application, with an ultimate goal of connecting individuals with caregivers, doctors and hospitals to improve health and wellness globally.
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- Health Care, Technology
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AIDS mobile app to be launched
The Indonesia AIDS Coalition (IAC), an NGO with members from AIDS-affected communities, will launch a mobile application on HIV/AIDS information and services.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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