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Zambia And IBM To Provide Increased Access To Life Saving Drugs
VENTURES AFRICA – IBM has announced a collaboration with Zambia’s Ministry of Health to provide citizens with better access to 200 lifesaving drugs.
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M-Pesa Rival Bitpesa Unveils Pilot of Bitcoin Remittance Service in Kenya
Kenya's BitPesa has launched a pilot or beta version of its solution which allows diaspora Kenyans to send money back home with ease and at affordable rates.
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How Equity plans to take on Safaricom in mobile payments
Kenya: This Monday, Equity Bank will reveal its entry strategy into the telecoms industry. Analysts say this could be a turning in Kenya’s telecoms market. “ Equity Bank will on Monday, May 26, 2014 hold an investors’ and media briefing to unveil its MVNO strategy, report on progress of preparedness and rollout plan,” read an invite.
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Mobile offers brighter future for Africa’s rural homes
John Kibet's home in rural Kenya is not linked to the country's electricity grid.
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OPINION: Impact investing here to stay
Financial advisers need to resist the urge to roll their eyes when the issue of impact investing comes up in conversation
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The base of the pyramid: will selling to the poor pay off?
When CK Prahalad's book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, was published in 2004, the book made an immediate splash. Its argument was irresistible: The world's poorest people are a vast, fast-growing market with untapped buying power, Prahalad wrote, and companies that learn to serve them can make money and help people escape poverty, too.
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Terminology Torture: What the Heck Qualifies as a Social Enterprise?
NPQ has written quite a bit lately about the notion of social enterprise, and much of it reflects a combination of excitement about alternate economic arrangements and concern about a sort of vagueness in definitions and accountability schemes and an overselling or fetishization of some boutique forms.
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J.J. Abrams Teases ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ with UNICEF Charity Initiative Video
J.J. Abrams is giving fans a first look at “Star Wars: Episode VII” and a chance to win a cameo in the new sci-fi epic — all in the name of charity.
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