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Press release: BBOXX pilots internet service to expand from off-grid electricity to additional utilities
In Rwanda, BBOXX has created internet connections via Wi-Fi Hotspots in a joint venture with Axiom Networks. So far, 10 fixed hotspots, powered by BBOXX solar systems, have been installed for the pilot.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, rural development
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Playing Drake While Ploughing Dirt: Tech Giants Are Bringing The Internet To Rural India, But Is Data The Price?
HuffPost India met with villagers living near Dholpur, a small town in Rajasthan, where Tata Trusts and Google India have been running a project called 'Internet Saathi' to train rural Indians to use a smartphone to access the Internet.
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- South Asia
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- data, rural development
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New York’s growing ‘tech for good’ community
Ventures that stress both social purpose and profit are benefiting from a growing ecosystem.
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- North America
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African Fintech startups to look out for in 2018
From mobile money transfer apps to tech firms determined to help users save, these tech startups come from all over Africa.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google could give Baidu a serious run for its money in China
Speculation on the US internet giant’s return has centred on its reported development of mobile search and news aggregation apps designed to meet China’s strict censorship laws.
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- Asia Pacific
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- public policy
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Phone monopoly is big prize in Ethiopia sell-off
“Everyone is here. MTN is here, Safaricom. I mean everyone is coming,” the new head of the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) said of the stiff competition to enter the previously off-limits telecoms sector.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile industry to add $150b to Africa’s economy by 2022, as subscribers rise
GSMA is pegging the rise to the growing number of mobile subscriptions, which it expects to hit 634 million — equivalent to 52 per cent of the population — by 2025, from 44 per cent as at the end of 2017.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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First Israel-India projects get green light from joint $40 million tech fund
Affordable eye-surgery devices and energy, water and cellular phone projects are those chosen to receive grants from the fund, seen as a gateway for Israelis to Indian market.
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- Technology