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Pivot and Persist: Analytics Startup Uses AI to Monitor Social Distancing Amid Coronavirus
Amid coronavirus, Pune-based retail analytics startup Glimpse Analytics has repurposed its AI device to alert in case of social distancing and occupancy limit violations in stores and offices.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- South Asia
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Protecting Young Startups During COVID-19
The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than 60 percent of the world’s youth, about 700 million young people. It is estimated that they account for half of the jobless people in the region. Entrepreneurship offers a way out, and many are already taking this route.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Indian Startups Diversify Their Businesses to Offset COVID-19 Induced Losses
“This pandemic has given an opportunity to the Indian tech startup ecosystem to have a harder look at the unit-economics of their businesses and become more capital efficient in the shorter and longer-term,” Puneet Kumar, a growth investor in Indian startup ecosystem, told TechCrunch in an interview.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- South Asia
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How Social Impact Startups Are Solving Brazil’s COVID-19 Challenges
The persistent problem of inequality in Latin America leaves citizens more vulnerable to the coronavirus. Innovative platforms move towards balancing the scales.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Latin America
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- edtech, healthcare technology, SDGs, startups
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Analysis: Can Agritech Turn the Tide for Farmers in Southeast Asia?
Agriculture has been one of the core pillars of human existence and development over the millennia and, while it continues to serve that crucial role today, the industry faces bigger challenges by the day.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Technology
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- South Asia
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- climate change, startups
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VisionFund contributes to COVID-19 Aftershocks Report
Millions of parents and caregivers have lost incomes and jobs due to COVID-19, forcing them to expose their children to harmful and dangerous circumstances such as begging or child marriage. World Vision has conducted rapid assessments in 24 countries across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia confirming alarming predictions of increased child hunger, violence, and poverty due to the economic impact of COVID-19.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- SDGs
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Viewpoint: COVID-19 Could Deliver Positive Changes to Emerging Markets
Emerging markets (EM) are at a crossroads. The impact of COVID-19 aggravates pre-existing challenges. But it also enables those EM economies that respond effectively to create better conditions for the future.
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- Coronavirus
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- accelerators
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Viewpoint: How to Save Vital Remittances to the Developing World
The remittance safety net is under threat from job losses in sectors heavily dependent on migrant labor, and any proposal that the G20 nations maintain remittance flows would probably meet with derisive laughter; it would be tantamount to demanding that foreign countries bankroll the developing world’s non-existent safety nets. So the question is, what can be done?
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- employment, remittances