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Sierra Leone, United Nations to Develop Blockchain Digital ID System
The UN Capital Development Fund (UNDCF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have entered into a partnership with Kiva, a technology nonprofit. Kiva will lend its institutional protocol of the same name to implement the “Credit Bureau Of The Future.”
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Enterprise technology start-ups that use emerging tech to solve real-world problems
Says Nitin Gupta, co-founder, CEO and CTO at NeuroTags, “NeuroTags’ emphasis is on bringing billions of items across the merchants together to collectively fight the counterfeiting via cloud-based centralized AI-based proprietary technology.”
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- South Asia
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World Bank Offers $1 Billion for Batteries in Emerging Markets
Most existing battery projects are expensive and focused in developed countries.
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- Energy, Technology
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- climate change
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Microsoft launches $40 million AI for Humanitarian Action initiative
One initiative to receive a grant from Conservation Metrics is using AI to recognize the unique sounds of elephants’ calls to track them over time. More than 100 AI for Earth grants have been awarded thus far.
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- Technology
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BitPesa, SBI Remit Partner for Blockchain Payments Between Japan And Africa
The two firms are leveraging blockchain technology to reduce friction, improve efficiency and interoperability for cross-border payments between the two continents.
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What the launch of BebaBeba could mean for Kenya’s taxi industry
Over the years, the surge in the number of taxi-hailing companies in Kenya has been tremendous, and so has the competition in the taxi industry as a whole. BebaBeba will now compete in a market already saturated and controlled by taxi-hailing giants, Uber, Taxify and Safaricom Little cab.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- startups
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IBM to Tackle Ocean Plastic and Global Poverty with Blockchain Technology
IBM aired a TV Commercial during an NFL match on September 17, 2018, called Plastic Bank, a new initiative which aims to tackle ocean plastic and global poverty with blockchain technology. The Plastic Bank is backed by IBM Technology which uses the LinuxOne blockchain to encourage entrepreneurs from the world’s most impoverished communities to clean up plastic in exchange for digital credits.
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Report: New Earth imagery platform aims to tackle global challenges including disasters
“As global threats like climate change rapidly grow, observation systems and analytical technologies such as machine learning allow us to analyse landscapes and communities at a scale that was previously impractical and inaccessible to global development practitioners,” said Anne Hale Miglarese, founder and CEO of Radiant Earth Foundation.
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