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Tigo, Airtel, Zantel announce Africa’s first interoperable mobile money agreement
Three major telecoms companies operating in Tanzania – Tigo, Airtel and Zantel – are to adopt interoperable mobile money services by the end of the month, the first agreement of its kind of Africa.
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How Mobile Phone Carriers Are Helping Insure The 4 Billion People Who Live Without A Safety Net
With this system, every time a customer tops up his SIM card, he gets free insurance coverage. The model helps carriers increase brand loyalty and gets people in poverty comfortable with the emerging concept of micro-insurance.
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IAN partners SIDBI & Germany’s GIZ to launch incubation programme for social enterprises in India
Indian Angel Network (IAN), a national network of angel investors that invests in startups and early-stage ventures, has launched an incubation programme to empower entrepreneurs in building sustainable and scalable businesses in the social impact space.
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Reflecting Our Energy for Impact: How can we strengthen the contributions of incubators and accelerators?
James Koch, a co-founder of the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) at Santa Clara University, examines how to strengthen incubators and accelerators, an integral part of enterprise development. Based more than a decade of developing enterprises through the GSBI, Koch offers four suggestions.
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Is Impact Investing the Next Big Thing for Bloomberg?
Despite his business background, Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy has been pretty traditional, albeit in an outsized way: He's made big cash grants to NGOs trying to solve major problems.
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Is Brazil the Country of the Future for Mobile Money?
Just three years ago, Latin America had the fewest number of mobile money deployments of any region in the world. Some believe that Brazil, with its extensive branchless banking infrastructure and supportive regulations, could become the first Latin American country to take a full mobile money deployment to scale. But according to Mondato, there are reasons to be skeptical.
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Impact Investing: Can We Pay Her Less?
I was in New York City meeting with an advisor who offered to help raise investor capital for our social enterprise. She was reviewing the business plan and numbers, then looked up and asked, "Can you pay the women less?"
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MobiKash launches mobile merchant payment service in Kenya
MobiKash Afrika has unveiled a merchant payment service to deliver mobile money transactions in real time, making cashless transactions at the grassroots level a reality for thousands of Kenyans.
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