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Meet The Entrepreneur Working To Challenge Nokia, Blackberry And Samsung In Africa
Alpesh Patel, a Ugandan-born entrepreneur, served as director of sales in Africa for Motorola before quitting the American telecommunications giant to launch Mi-Fone, an African mobile phone brand.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Beyond Profit: A Talk With Muhammad Yunus
Today, in a ceremony at the United States Capitol, Congressional leaders will present the founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, with the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of his “efforts to combat global poverty.”
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- Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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- microfinance
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Sierra Leone: Using Technology to Save Lives
The telecommunications industry and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have teamed up to use mobile phone technology to save lives in Sierra Leone.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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New Dalhberg Study shows how the Internet will drive development in Africa
Despite widespread agreement on the web’s potential to transform lives and reduce poverty, there is little information about how policymakers and investors should capitalize on this potential.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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mHealth ‘could save a million African lives by 2017
Mobile health (mHealth) applications such as text messages could save more than a million lives in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next five years, according to a report.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New apps transforming remote parts of Africa
For generations, breeding cows in the rural highlands of Kenya has hinged on knowledge and experience passed down from parents to children. But Mercy Wanjiku is unlike most farmers. Her most powerful tool is her cell phone, and a text messaging service called iCow.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New plan to ensure universal health care in Somalia
Every Somali citizen will have access to basic healthcare by 2016 if a new, government-led strategic plan achieves its aims.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Plan to Chart Heart Risk in 1 Million Adults in Real Time
Researchers are launching a major study that will marshal the power of smartphones and other personal technologies in an effort to develop new strategies for preventing and managing heart disease.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health