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Barclays Africa Selects 10 Startups for e-Health, Fintech Accelerator
Barclays Africa has chosen 10 startups from the e-health and fintech sectors to take part in its 13-week Tech Lab accelerator programme, aimed at providing startups with access to business mentors, industry leaders, influencers and experts.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: TPP IP Chapter “A Disaster for Global Health”
Wikileaks leaked the final draft of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) over the weekend, which has been panned by various “experts”.
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- Health Care
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Social Entrepreneurs Must Use System to Attack Climate Change, Poverty
Tackling social problems including climate change and poverty takes more than throwing money at the problem. Social entrepreneurs must attack it from the inside, said Sally Osberg, co-author of Getting Beyond Better.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Innovative Infant Resuscitator May Be Introduced in India
An innovation that enables infants, who have difficulty in breathing, to respire immediately after birth, developed by a researcher from the faculty of Harvard Medical School along with a few others could be introduced in India.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Indian American Social Entrepreneur Bhagwati Agrawal in CNN’s Top 10 Heroes List
Bhagwati Agrawal, an Indian American social entrepreneur, has advanced into CNN’s Top Ten Heroes of 2015 for creating a rainwater harvesting system that provided safe drinking water to more than 10,000 people across six villages in Rajasthan.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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These Solar-Powered Machines Help Farmers Dry Their Food Instead of Letting It Rot
A lot of food grown in developing countries never makes it to the people's bellies. Because of a lack of refrigeration, it rots during transport or when farmers fail to sell it immediately at markets. Every year, 1.3 billion tons of food (with a value of more than $1 trillion) is wasted in this way, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- solar
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A New Recycling Venture Aims to Eliminate Virgin Plastic
A recent list of 100 of the world’s most compassionate business leaders was topped by the usual suspects: Paul Polman, Richard Branson, Muhammad Yunus and Elon Musk. And then there’s David Katz.
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- Environment
- Region
- Latin America
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From Interior Design to Microfinance in South Sudan
On a warm afternoon in this dirt-road town, 34-year-old Missy Williams sits on a plastic chair beneath a thatched roof in the center of a bustling market.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending, microfinance
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