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Bill Gates focused on digital payment for poor
Though there has been a lot of talk and media coverage about the tremendous potential mobile payments offer to the poor, underbanked and financially disenfranchised around the world–minus a few bright spots (M-Pesa) the progress of mobile in bridging the gap between the banked and unbanked has been slow going.
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- Technology
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PRESS RELEASE: Social value networks join up to create ‘international force for change’
Two of the most established and respected social impact organisations are joining forces to create the largest international social value network in the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Climate smart farmers get tech savvy to save India’s bread basket
Erratic weather, rising temperatures, declining water resources and labour shortages are threatening India's bread basket state of Haryana, forcing farmers to abandon age-old practices and adopt technology to ensure food supplies for millions.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Johnson & Johnson Announces New Grant to Harvard Medical School to Combat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Johnson & Johnson today announced its affiliate Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (Janssen) has entered into a novel collaboration with Harvard Medical School to address critical gaps in the global struggle against tuberculosis (TB).
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- research
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Notts company Eminate aims to improve global health with new ingredients
After achieving global success with a salt-reduction product, a Nottingham company is working on new ingredients which could improve health.
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- Education, Health Care
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Mobile technology supports frontline health workers
South Africa’s standard paper-based health system is inefficient and ineffective. Through Mobenzi, workers can organise patient data centrally and swiftly. It allows illness identification and treatment, referrals, and patient interaction.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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USAID is incubating start-ups to tackle poverty problems
With his nifty PowerPoint slides and carefully crafted pitch, Yashraj Khaitan might be mistaken for any other fast-talking, code-savvy Bay Area millennial boasting that he has hit on the idea to solve a vexing world problem.Yet, in Khaitan's case, some very influential people in Washington think he may be right.The federal government agency charged with easing world hunger and poverty has bet a million dollars on Khaitan's tiny start-up. It is among a handful of companies that the US Agency for International Development is looking to as it seeks to upend the way aid agencies go about trying to improve living conditions in some of the world's most deeply impoverished places.
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- South Asia
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G8 report sheds light on the process of building the impact investing market
A G8 task force on impact investing published a report on September 15th, with its recommendations on how to push forward the market.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing