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Advances in AI and ML are reshaping health care
Applications of AI and ML in health care have enabled the industry to take on some of its biggest challenges in personal genetics, drug discovery and disease identification and management.
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- Health Care
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Drones to carry vital vaccines in Pacific in ground-breaking trial
In what's believed to be a world-first, drones are to be trialled to carry vaccines to remote communities in the Pacific.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- vaccines
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Solar provider and telco team up to offer affordable smartphone in Rwanda
Mobisol, a German provider of smart high quality solar solutions, and MTN, Rwanda’s leading mobile telecommunications company, have joined hands to offer customers a high performance Tecno smart phone to be purchased on an attractive and affordable instalment payment scheme.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Will The Rise Of Crowdfunding Reshape How We Give To Charity?
Last September, a Chicago resident named Joel Cervantes Macias spotted an 89-year-old man named Fendicio hawking Mexican ice pops–they’re called “paletas”–out of a street cart. The man looked too old to be working, but Macias only had so much spare cash (and so much room for dessert). So he posted a picture of Fendicio on the charitable crowdfunding site GoFundMe, asking others to pitch in for a vacation.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- crowdfunding, philanthropy
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Johnson & Johnson announces Africa Innovation Challenge winners
Healthcare company, Johnson & Johnson has announced the three winners of the Africa Innovation Challenge at the Global Entrepreneurship congress, which took place in Johannesburg.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pension funds are key to Africa’s transformation — and city officials can help
Africa has seen over two decades of rising investment, including an exponential rise in foreign direct investment that has rebounded from the 2008 global financial crisis. But this investment is not accompanied by the requisite economic and social transformation that would allow the poorest countries to provide their citizens with the same type of sustainable opportunities seen in developed countries.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, impact investing
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Indians will soon be able to make transfers between digital wallets, thanks to the government
Digital wallets such as Paytm and MobiKwik are set to become inter-operable as Reserve Bank of India (RBI) prepares to open up the Unified Payment Interface platform for them as part of the government’s digitisation campaign.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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SOCAP Group Announces The Good Capital Project, Expands Vision with New Leadership and Capital
SOCAP, is proud to announce it will be spinning out of its former MissionHUB LLC ownership. Earlier this year, Robert J. Caruso, Founder & Managing Partner of Kantian Social Ventures led the investment round with a group of mission aligned impact investors and innovators to allow SOCAP to independently ramp up its efforts to spread awareness of market based solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, curate thought-leadership in the space, and educate impact market participants. SOCAP will begin expanding its brand reach to larger, more mainstream audiences and enhance its consumer engagement practices to help bring impact investing into the mainstream consciousness.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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