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Savings Groups Allowed on EcoCash Mobile Money Platform in Zimbabwe
Econet Wireless is now allowing group savings on its mobile money platform, EcoCash, a development the company says will reduce risks associated with cash handling.
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Gates Foundation Plans Teams to Determine Causes of Child Mortality
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to create a network of disease-surveillance teams in poor countries to do “minimal autopsies” on children to plumb causes of child mortality and also possibly spot emerging epidemics, the foundation announced Wednesday.
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Visa Pushes for Financial Inclusion in Philippines
There is an opportunity for financial inclusion in the Philippines, and VISA is banking on such potential.
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Drone Pilots, AI, Tweets and Texts Speed Up Relief Efforts in Nepal
They are known as digital humanitarians: the thousands of tech-savvy volunteers from around the world who are both physically and virtually converging on the crisis in Nepal and digging through mountains of data to help humanitarian agencies direct their aid.
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Tanzania: Mobile Banking Deepens Financial Inclusion
One of the drivers of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) by 7.0 per cent last year was financial intermediation, speeded up by inclusive financing.
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‘Leg Bank’ Hope for Changing Amputees’ Lives
A 'leg bank' - providing life-changing prostheses to low-income people who have lost limbs - is being developed by a team including University of Strathclyde researchers.
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Could Stellar Be the Answer to Enable Financial Inclusion Around the Globe?
When the internet first came round in the mid-nineties, people didn’t expect to see impactful tools like open-source libraries like Wikipedia or renting sites like AirBnb or car-sharing ones such as Uber and Lyft. As an open tool, the internet has laid the foundation for these products to be born, reaching audiences far and wide with powerful applications that impact most of our daily lives, whether we like it or not. But a lot of important industries have been left behind in the process. This, however, might be starting to change.
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Press Release: A Commitment to Improve Global Health Information
WHO and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding defining areas where they will work together to improve the quality and use of global health estimates to measure the world’s health challenges.
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