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Facebook launches open-source wireless access platform for remote areas
Facebook is clearly very serious about its mission to connect the world and in the process, it has launched solar-powered drones that use lasers to connect to each other and the ground, and more prosaic efforts like new antennas for covering both urban and rural areas.
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Flying an unregistered drone in Ghana could send you to jail for 30 years
Ghana’s Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is starting to take drones seriously—very seriously. It has issued new directives on drone ownership and operations, under which operating an unregistered drone (or “Remotely Piloted Aircraft System,” as the authority calls it) can incur a jail term of “up to 30 years.”
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tigo Tanzania unveils cross-network money service
Tigo Tanzania announced a move to allow its users to receive money from customers that use other major telecoms networks in the country. In a press conference held in Dar es Salaam, the company launched the new campaign, dubbed NITIGOPESA, which will see customers on all major networks in the country be able to transact mobile financial services with Tigo Pesa customers.
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Research reveals that mobile banking increases financial inclusion
The report, ‘A Quantum Leap Over High Hurdles to Financial Inclusion: The Mobile Banking Revolution in Kenya’, focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, through the lens of Kenya. It reveals that as a result of mobile banking Kenya’s financial inclusion rates have increased dramatically; however, the research also states that Kenya’s success may not be easily replicated in other developing countries.
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How Rootstock is Using Bitcoin for Financial Inclusion
Ethereum has gained a lot of attention over the past few years due to the sci-fi-esque use cases of the technology that are often touted by its biggest supporters. As a platform forsmart contracts, Ethereum is often viewed as a revolutionary technology that could completely reshape how the world works through the use of decentralized autonomous organizations.
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Entrepreneur Reimagines Feminine Hygiene, Launches Social Venture
Serial entrepreneur Molly Hayward has a fresh take on feminine hygiene, reimagining everything from the absorbent materials to the packaging. With a deep commitment to social justice, she has paired her new products with a program to get girls in the developing world back to school by providing appropriate monthly products for them, too.
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Announcing the launch of the 2016 Global Adoption Survey of Mobile Money
Today, we are launching the 2016 version of our annual Global Adoption Survey. This year’s survey continues to focus on the health of the industry and the development of the ecosystem. The scope encompasses mobile money, as well as credit, savings and insurance products enabled by mobile money.
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Combining technologies cracks vaccine chiller issue
Vaccines against killer diseases from polio to hepatitis are fragile and can easily be made useless if they get too hot or too cold. The problem is particularly acute in the developing countries where nearly one in five of the world's population -- 1.3 billion people -- live without access to electricity.
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