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UT Arlington receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant for research in global health
A new research grant could lead to new ways to cool vaccines and medicine that must be shipped to remote parts of the world without ready access to electricity.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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S’pore firm and Mongolian government create ‘Medical Silk Road’ to improve healthcare with mobile technology
The Mongolian government has partnered with Singapore’s Borderless Healthcare Group to improve rural healthcare through the use of mobile technology. The initiative is dubbed the ‘Medical Silk Road’.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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GravityLight: the low-cost lamp powered by sand and gravity
Two London designers have developed a gravity-powered lamp that could sell for as little as £3, bringing light to remote regions in developing countries
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- Energy, Technology
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- renewable energy
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All About India : A Health Care Market in Transition (Part 4)
India’s health care system is at a crossroads. Its population is getting older, and age and lifestyle-related diseases are on the rise. Yet its health care system is ill-equipped to respond. This fourth and final post in our series on India provides an overview of the country’s biggest health care challenges, and nine solutions for solving them.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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- public health
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The Gyaner Haats – knowledge bazaars – of Bangladesh
Faruk Ul Islam explains how his charity is developing networks that build on official channels to reach deeper into communities
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- South Asia
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The Best of 2012: Using Mobile to Reach Scale
About Ugandan 21,000 households are currently registered to receive SMS messages from Living Goods. With an average household size of five people Uganda, where Living Goods operates, of five people, the company is already reaching over 100,000 clients in the first three months since the platform launched. On the one day I visited Living Goods’ Kampala office, by mid-morning tea time over 320 expecting or recent mothers had already received an SMS text.
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VMK launch ‘first African-designed’ smartphone and tablet
A smartphone and tablet said to be the first designed by an African company have beenlaunched.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NexThought Monday: Why the Mobile Phone Might Not Be as Inclusive as You Think
Though we are optimistic that mobile technology will play a large role in providing financial access, we must continuously monitor how the phones are actually being used, and continue to develop alternative methods of participation for those do not have easy access to their own phone.
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