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Tech for Impact: Rapid advances in health care, education and design powers Village Capital India cohort
In mid-April, we launched our 18th Village Capital program, “Tech for Impact,” in partnership with CIIE (the Center for Incubation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship) at IIM-Ahmedabad. We received about 400 applications from across India from entrepreneurs building technologies that provide affordable basic services to the poor, and have high growth. Here are some of the themes we’re seeing from the top innovators in India.
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- Technology
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- incubators
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Mobile Money in Tanzania: Understanding consumers’ perspectives
After stagnating during the first two waves of our research, mobile money use among Tanzanian adults nearly doubled over the course of the study. Poor, rural women were consistently the least likely to use mobile money, while urban men above the poverty line were the most likely. However, we found that gender does not play as large a role in mobile money use as might be expected.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Preventing Drug Shortages With Cell Phones in Malawi
Eighty percent of the 13 million Malawians live in rural areas, making delivering health services challenging, especially in remote parts with no roads.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Market for feature phone apps is low-tech goldmine
The next time you are standing at a bus stop, cursing the late-running service, spare a thought for Milind Dahikar.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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The Accidental Social Enterprise: VSee’s unexpected foray into BoP health care
Milton Chen founded VSee to provide a fully encrypted, low bandwidth alternative to Skype. But his video conferencing and screen share application was soon adopted by BoP health care providers, which now represent a growing portion of the company’s business. In this post, Chen describes how VSee has catered to this unexpected market through a suite of innovative telemedicine tools.
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- Health Care, Technology
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How solar panels are leading the fight against malaria
Kenyan island aims to become free of the disease thanks to solar-powered, insecticide-free mosquito traps
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, solar
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Meet The Entrepreneur Working To Challenge Nokia, Blackberry And Samsung In Africa
Alpesh Patel, a Ugandan-born entrepreneur, served as director of sales in Africa for Motorola before quitting the American telecommunications giant to launch Mi-Fone, an African mobile phone brand.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Avoiding the Generation Gap : Young people and financial access, going beyond mobile money
For many young people, owning a phone is aspirational and closely tied to their self-esteem. The surge of young people with phones or phone access and the emergence of low-cost mobile banking technology suggests that it may be timely to engage them in accessing digital financial services and building their financial capabilities.
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- Technology, Telecommunications