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How an Anti-Tech Teacher Ended Up Creating A Mobile App to Improve Education in Africa
In 2011 I returned to Kenya for a vacation. I wanted to see the community where I had lived just two years earlier, bring gifts to the families I had bonded with, and sing songs with the kids of the rural village that I had called home. I had lived in Muhuru Bay without water and electricity while working with teachers in this community to help students prepare for high school. It was meant to be a break before heading off to the West Coast for business school. I hadn't expected to start a company, especially one in technology.
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- Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Oxford Business Dean: MBA Programs Should Be More than Driving Schools
Saïd Business School's dean argues that MBA programs should steer students toward futures that benefit not only their institutions but the world at large.
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- Education
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- Europe & Eurasia
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The Future of the Global Fund
During his recent visit to Canberra, Stephen Howes spoke to Dr Mark Dybul, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. You can listen to a podcast of their full conversation here. The following is a condensed transcript.
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- Education, Health Care
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- impact investing
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New Tuberculosis Drug Enters First Trial: The Good and Sad News
The maiden human trial of a potential tuberculosis drug — the first in six years — has now commenced.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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Global Pharma’s R&D Re-Balancing
Earlier this week, in Michael Woodhead’s superb blog China Medical News, he wrote about “major problems with ‘serious’ research clinical trails carried out in China.” Michael points to a JAMA article and then proceeds to elaborate:
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- South Asia
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Nandan Nilekani Plans Tech Project ‘Ek Step’ to Hone Children’s Basic Skills
Infosys co-founder and billionaire Nandan Nilekani, who spearheaded the country's massive unique identification project, is gearing up for an equally ambitious project - to help elementary school children across the country improve their reading and arithmetic skills using low-end tablets and smartphones.
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- Education, Technology
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- South Asia
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DAI, Souktel, and MFO Launch Mobile Financial Education Services with Facebook’s Internet.org
In low-income countries, good information about personal budgeting and saving is hard to find. Many people have limited schooling and little familiarity with financial institutions. Financial education efforts at the local level—often constrained by inadequate staff resources and transportation challenges—tend to be one-time events accessible only to a small slice of the population. Getting the information you need at the moment you need it is nearly impossible.
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- Education, Technology
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Startup Accelerator Scholas.Labs Announced by Pope Francis
Startup accelerator Scholas.Labs was announced last week during an education event hosted by Pope Francis. Although one hardly expects to hear “startup accelerator” and “pontiff” in the same sentence, this enterprise is quite real and is aimed at assisting education projects all over the world.
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- Education
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