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Solar-Powered ATMs to Deliver Clean Drinking Water in Pakistan
Punjab province is set to launch an innovation for water-short Pakistan: Solar-powered ATMs that dispense clean water when a smart card is scanned.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Alex Counts to Step Down As President and CEO of Grameen Foundation
A little more than 18 years ago, I began my journey as the founding President and CEO of Grameen Foundation (GF). Professor Muhammad Yunus provided me with $6,000 in seed funding and enormous amounts of his time and wisdom, and of course the Grameen brand. Since then, thousands of people and organizations joined me on this journey to contribute to the global movement to eliminate poverty. Grameen Foundation became a daring and caring community of practical idealists that applies the values embodied by Professor Yunus and his team at the global level.
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- Education
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India’s Axis Bank Taps WhatsApp for P2P Mobile Payments
India's Axis Bank has launched a mobile payments service that lets users send money to each other through WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, email and phone contact lists.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- digital payments
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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the World of Crowdfunding
Since Kickstarter and its chief rival Indiegogo launched, the tech and web industries and have seen a wealth of entrepreneurs make their case before the crowd. Looking to fund everything from tech gadgets to movies and charitable causes, entrepreneurs of all stripes have turned to the crowd to bring their ideas to a mass market.
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- Uncategorized
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Apple-Alibaba Tie-Up to Bring Apple Pay to China?
Apple is in talks with Alibaba to bring its mobile payments system to China, according to an interview with Chinese news agency Xinhua.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Why “Design for Development” Is Failing on Its Promise
A couple of years ago, I had a moment of crisis about the role of design in tackling the challenges of our time.
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- Impact Assessment
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India: The Fight to Become a Science Superpower
With her jeans, T-shirt and spirited attitude, Tapasya Srivastava could pass for a student as she works in her brightly lit cancer-biology lab on the University of Delhi South Campus. Srivastava, who oversees a team of eight researchers, is thrilled that she earned “a small research space of my own” in 2010, while still in her thirties. “With a decent list of publications under my belt, I am one of the few who have studied and undergone training entirely in India,” she says.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- research
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Call for $2B Global Antibiotic Research Fund
The global pharmaceutical industry is being called on to pay for a $2bn (£1.3bn) innovation fund to revitalise research into antibiotics.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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