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OPINION: What Impact Investors Can Learn From Winemaking
There is a winery near my hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, and if you were to ask me what I thought of it I would respond that, “the product is a work in progress, but the user experience is awesome.” Impact investing can learn a lot from this vineyard, Early Mountain Vineyard.
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Consumer Federation of Kenya fights off claim of bias in mobile money war
Pressure is mounting on the Consumer Federation of Kenya ( Cofek) to stop opposing the award of licences to Equity Bank and two other Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) and support the venture.
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Mobile virtual operators compete with established players in Africa
Players in the traditional telecoms market have struggled in countries where extensive infrastructure is needed
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‘Oscars’ for health care innovation is back
GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children are reopening their doors for innovative solutions to reduce under-5 child mortality.
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Online facility for Diaspora doctors to serve in India opened by Health Minister
Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in a speech which was read out by the Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan last night to a gathering of US-based Indian medical professionals said that the aim of his government is to bring about a “complete transformation” of the health sector through research, innovation and the latest technology.
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GSMA announces mHealth partnership across Sub-Saharan Africa
The GSMA has announced that its Mobile for Development mHealth programme has launched a new cross-ecosystem partnership designed to provide a range of mHealth services to women and children, with a particular focus on nutrition, across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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4 Ways to Supercharge Your Social Enterprise Through Accountability
The social enterprise sector is hot—it may be worth well over $500 billion in the US alone. But if social business is to solve many of the world’s most pressing problems, we have to make sure it has both internal and external accountability systems in place to do so.
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The apparent M-Pesa monopoly may be set to crumble
Competition to the M-Pesa is heating up in Kenya, the world’s most advanced mobile payments market.
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