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Off-Grid Devices Draw Drinking Water from Dry Air
Robust systems are being developed that rely on readily available energy from the sun, are scalable and can work even in arid regions—where a third of the world’s population lives, often in poverty.
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- Environment, Technology
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How to make global universal healthcare a reality
"All healthcare models have their challenges in terms of systems capacity, fiscal space and good governance."
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- Health Care
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- public health
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MetLife Foundation & Verb Launch Competition To Accelerate Financial Innovation In Egypt & Lebanon
The competition launches in Egypt & Lebanon this week and will attract participants that have an innovative idea or solution to empower the nearly 50 million Egyptians and Lebanese that manage their day-to-day financial lives without a bank account.
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- Uncategorized
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- North Africa & Near East
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Visa pushes further into Africa
Visa has partnered with Interswitch, Africa's integrated payments and transaction solutions company, to bolster adoption of mVisa, the card network’s mobile payment solution, according to Vanguard.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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Airtel loses 5 million mobile money users in Kenya in three months
The firm’s subscribers stood at 6.3 million in March, a decline from 6.8 million in December, which the regulator attributed to the revision of a popular offering by the operator resulting in customers slowing down on use of its products.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Will tech solve Britain’s heartbreaking ‘poverty premium’?
Today business accelerator Wayra, backed by O2’s parent company Telefonica, is launching a business accelerator to tackle the poverty premium.
Called Fair By Design, Wayra will offer around £70,000 in cash and services in seven small digital businesses aiming to improve access to affordable services.- Categories
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- Europe & Eurasia
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African countries want to turn their poor, overcrowded urban centers into “smart cities”
Rwanda is on a campaign to transform its capital city of rolling hills and low-rise buildings into a so-called smart city where urban living has been optimized. Already, officials like to stress how much technology is part of daily life in Rwanda, from the president’s active Twitter presence to the fact that registering a marriage, death, or birth—things that would normally require multiple forms and trips to a government office—are increasingly done online.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World’s First Social Sustainability Bond Listed on a Stock Exchange
The US$8 million bond provides loans to social enterprises and microfinance institutions, which, in turn, aim to help more than 385,000 women in Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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