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Applying ICT to Education in Africa: While Internet access expands, energy access is waning
Africa has largely leapfrogged through several technological innovations – such as the landline phone – in the last 20 years. The rapid pace of development has also led to the spread of ICTs without the infrastructure to support widespread adoption. Many developing countries lack consistent access to energy.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Uganda: Executive Style – Managing Patients’ Records for Better Health
Claude VendetteOne Solutions, an ICT support company, is pioneering an innovative ICT-based record-keeping system to improve on operations at health facilities - which will ultimately contribute to the streamlining of processes in the health care delivery system in Uganda. The CEO, Claude Vendette, spoke to The Independent about its benefits.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Investment Fund Will Advance Late-Stage Vaccines and other Global Health Technologies
A new investment fund structured by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will, for the first time, allow individual and institutional investors the opportunity to finance late-stage global health technologies that have the potential to save millions of lives in low-income countries. With $94 million committed by a pioneering group of investors -- including anchor support from Grand Challenges Canada (funded by the Government of Canada), the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (acting through KfW) and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation -- the Global Health Investment Fund ("GHIF" or the "Fund") will help advance the most promising interventions to fight challenges in low-income countries such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and maternal and infant mortality.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Day 1 at Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions
Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California Berkeley hosted “Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions” – a conference sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation this week. With mobile money entrepreneurs and representatives from large firms
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- Technology
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Humans Trump Gadgets: How our focus on quick technology wins in global health is distracting us from the fundamental business of health care delivery
Devices, technology platforms and reformulated medications have captured the imagination of some of the top funders in the social impact and social innovation space. Somehow the business of health care delivery has fallen by the wayside.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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- public health, scale
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Safaricom Cautions Kenya Over Higher Taxes
Kenyan mobile operator, Safaricom, has warned the government that further increases in Excise Tax – a duty levied on goods or services for sale – will make mobile payment services less affordable for poorer citizens.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Phoning It In: An innovative way to make health care affordable for Kenya’s working poor
Changamka helps Kenyans save small amounts over time to purchase health insurance through a product called “Linda Jamii” (Swahili for “care for the family”). A mobile money micro-financing system makes it possible.
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- Health Care, Technology
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How Cell Phones Are Transforming Health Care in Africa
In a little over a decade, Africa has gone from a region with virtually no fixed-line telecoms infrastructure to a continent where one in six of the billion inhabitants now owns a cell phone. But as this mass adoption of technology continues to gather momentum, it is causing a fundamental shift that goes beyond merely connecting people; it is creating one of the largest, low-cost distributed sensor networks we’ve ever seen, one which has the potential to completely transform global health care.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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