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Tool built to help pick Sustainable Development Goals
A tool designed to help policymakers choose the best Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to replace the UN’s Millennium Development Goals when they expire next year has been launched by an international organisation that promotes global sustainable development.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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Cellphones Can Change Global Health for the Better
For two days this month, the United Nations Headquarters in New York hosted the invite-only Cavendish Global Impact Forum. Among the panel discussions was how to identify innovations with the potential for transformational impact on disease outcomes and ensure their successful integration into medical practice.
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- Health Care, Technology
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IFC expands support to capital markets, access to finance and telecommunications in Rwanda
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the private sector in Rwanda.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Anti-Counterfeit Technologies Can Save Your Supply Chain: New products help overcome delivery challenges in emerging market health systems
Counterfeit drugs kill hundreds of thousands every year. Technologies designed to help alleviate this problem also have have relevance in supply chains and delivery challenges.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Need for affordable medical services driving students to develop healthcare applications in India
The need for affordable medical services and a growing market for tech-based applications are driving students to develop healthcare applications in India. Over a dozen campus startups that topped various industry contests this year are breaking new ground in medical technologies.
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- Health Care, Technology
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M-Pesa gets faster payments upgrade
Kenyan telco Safaricom has upgraded its M-Pesa mobile money service to implement near-instantaneous transactions.
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- Technology
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Apps emerging new health tool
Mobiles may emerge as one of the best instruments to control heart diseases. A study done by a San Francisco-based cardiologist, who was born in Vile Parle and studied at KEM Hospital in Parel, was presented at the ongoing World Congress of Cardiology in Melbourne, showing how this can be done. E-health or the use of healthcare mobile applications could help manage the chronically sick in places where patients were poor or there were very few doctors, said a press release from the Congress.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Nigerian Telecoms Operators Excluded from Cross Border Remittance
Nigeria will not be a beneficiary of the landmark deal struck by major telecoms operators in Africa for the implementation of interoperable mobile money services across Africa and the Middle East regions. This is so because no telecoms operator from Nigeria is licensed to provide mobile money services, according to CommunicationsWeek.
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- Technology
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