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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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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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A Cure for Baldness – But Not Malaria?: Attracting Businesses to Global Health R&D
The business of global health R&D isn’t working. Companies are seeking profitable treatments for relatively minor health problems, while largely ignoring major global diseases. But innovative new funding models are combining profit motives with an integrated social cause. Can they change the face of global health R&D?
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Weekly Roundup : 6 Billion Mobile Users – Billions of Business Possibilities
This week a group of telecommunications and nonprofit leaders got together at the Brookings Institution to talk mobile technology, poverty, and business. The meeting was framed with commentary on how mobile devices and phones – growing ever smarter – are penetrating every corner of the world. With 5 billion of the 6 billion mobile users living the the developing nations, the infrastructure and the applications to go with it are expanding exponentially.
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A Light Bulb Goes On: A Major Innovation in Asset Finance: M-KOPA’s model could illuminate other sectors
The creators of M-KOPA , which sells solar base stations that can charge phones, power lights, and other limited applications, has come up with one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in the mobile money space in some time.
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Mobile Technology a Game Changer in Developing World
As much disruption and upheaval as the Internet age has brought to far-flung industries like education, energy and finance, the emergence of mobile computing has a much greater potential for change on a global scale, a group of experts said on Thursday.
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