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Social Enterprise Ghana Launches First Industry Group
Social Entrepreneurs Ghana (SE Ghana) is being launched by a number of social entrepreneurs and organizations including Reach for Change, the British Council, Impact Hub, Growth Mosaic, TEDxAccra, mPedigree, TANOE, Street Library, Challenging Heights, Ashesi University, AACT, Nneka Foundation, Farmable, CRESSENT, InnoHuB, phinklife, Kokroko foundation, GEW and Center for Social Innovation.
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About 70% of Ghana’s ‘Susu’ Collectors Are Operating Illegally
Out of an estimated 1,500 Susu collectors operating in the country, with a client base of over 2 million, only 472 of them (representing 31 percent) are formally licenced under the self-regulation scheme, making t activities of the rest illegal.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending, microfinance
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Samsung to Launch Pasha Centre-Like Digital Villages In Kenya, Others
Samsung said that it will be launching Pasha Centers-Like Digital Villages in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania this year that will focus on the challenges in undeserved and rural communities, provide people in this areas with access to ICT so they can learn about and utilize educational and health solutions, reports Footprint to Africa.
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s Big Banks Are Betting on Fintech Startups and Bitcoin to Beat Disruption
African banks have been late to the fintech party, but after leaving huge swaths of the population to get their financial services from telcos(most famously Safaricom’s M-Pesa in Kenya), banks here are increasingly seeing the continent as a testing ground for new financial technologies like bitcoin and the blockchain.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Harvard SAI Ties Up With IIT Delhi to Help Startups; Tata Trusts to Give Grant
Harvard University's South Asia Institute has joined hands with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Tata Trusts in a first initiative of its kind to mentor 25 social entrepreneurship startups in science and technology. The project, led by the institute director Tarun Khanna, aims to create jobs by helping these startups with mentoring, workshops and providing grants to select ventures.
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Vodafone Launches Real-Time M-Pesa Money Transfers
Vodafone and TransferTo, a company specializing in international airtime credit and mobile money transmissions, said Wednesday (Feb. 17) that they are working together to enable real-time global money transfers via M-Pesa Mobile Money accounts around the world.
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Sanergy, Inc., Which Wastes Not, Secures $1.7 million
Sanergy, Inc., a social enterprise that makes prefabricated concrete toilets that turn human waste into fertilizer, has raised $1.7 million to expand operations in Nairobi, where it is headquartered.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, waste
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Major Telecoms Attain Financial Interoperability
Vodacom, the leading telecom in Tanzania is finally joining three others - Airtel, Tigo and Zantel - for subscribers to transfer money across multiple networks enabling the country achieve full interoperability.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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