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Silicon Valley casts its nets in the Caribbean
Jamaica and neighboring countries are preparing to leave their mark on the technology industry.
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- Technology
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Latin America catches entrepreneurship fever
Latin Americans just don't invent much. The region is home to 8% of the global population and yet, in 2010, just 2.6% of the world's applications for patent registration were filed from here.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Latin America
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Opinion: Business can do what governments can’t – solve the world’s biggest problems
Only multinational corporations have the resources to solve the world's most daunting problems
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- Impact Assessment
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The Indian government launched a comprehensive programme to improve the health of adolescents
Adolescents comprise over 21 percent of the over 121 core population, in the country with a focus on community-based interventions.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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5 ways to accelerate global health in 2014
The potential offered by the wealth of information is profound. If used carefully, it could give us a better insight into the journey of disease across different regions, antibiotic resistance or the uptake of treatment.
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- Health Care
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Vaccine nanoparticles offer shake-and-bake field delivery
To be able to make vaccines on site simply and effectively would greatly benefit remote areas that are often hampered by both distance from the source of vaccines and the difficulty of refrigeration.
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- Health Care
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In 2014 the next billion will access the mobile internet—at $20 a handset
The total number of mobile subscriptions will exceed 7 billion by 2014, according to the International Telecommunications Union.
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- Uncategorized
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- mobile finance
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Central Bank of Nigeria moves to enhance financial services to Nigerians
Nigeria felt that it is lagging behind some of its peer countries in Africa.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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