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D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship Applications Open from MIT
Applications due April 9 for a 12-month program that provides $20,000 to develop sustainable social ventures
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- Education, Environment
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Computer Access for the Poorest at $7 a Head
Israeli start-up Keepod believes it has a low-cost way to bring the billions living in poverty into the digital age.
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- Education, Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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Strong health systems, the ‘secret ingredient’
In his 2013 State of the Union Address, U.S. President Barack Obama set forth a vision for achieving what would be one of the greatest contributions to human progress — eliminating extreme poverty. As a global health community, we have the skills and know-how to accomplish these goals, but we must work together and recognize that the ‘secret ingredient’ that binds all of our collective knowledge, skills and interventions is a strong health system.
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- Education, Health Care
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Maternal health activists appeal to court
Human rights activists for improved maternal health services have asked the Supreme Court to hear their petition seeking to compel the Government to provide essential adequate kits in referral hospitals for the mothers’ safe deliveries.
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- Education, Health Care
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Financial Literacy Crucial to Nigeria’s Economic Growth
Financial literacy among Nigerians especially the young people will foster economic growth and development even as the country seeks the attainment of financial inclusion in the economy,
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Biz-school courses focus on giving back
In 2010, Donnel Baird grew increasingly frustrated while working for a coalition of labor and environmental groups in Washington, D.C., to promote residential energy efficiency and sustainability projects. In the process, he discovered how difficult it was for entrepreneurial businesses, nonprofits, churches and other small enterprises to find backers such as banks willing to fund their efforts to install solar power or energy-conservation technologies. "The transaction costs and the risks were too high," he said.
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- Education
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Bottom Of The Pyramid Overspending On Mobile Services in Africa
Expert at a World Consumer Rights Day event in Nairobi said on Friday poor African’s are spending too much on mobile phone services to the extent of foregoing basic needs, ITWeb Africa reported.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Anti-Science Environmentalists Ban ‘Neonic’ Insecticides, Imperiling Global Health
Some of history’s greatest advances in public health – especially in regions plagued by insect borne diseases – have come from the judicious use of pesticides to kill or repel the insect vector before it can infect human populations. Because the market for public health pesticides is relatively small, however, most of these vital chemistries were developed for larger agricultural uses. Unfortunately, that source of new products is increasingly under threat from shortsighted environmentalism and the European embrace of “precautionary” regulation.
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- Education, Health Care
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