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Fintech Holds The Key To Myanmar’s Future
As recently as 2013, CNN described Myanmar’s banking system as “outdated and debased, open for decades to abuse by the previous regime, and shunned by about 90 percent of the population.”
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- South Asia
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- fintech, mobile finance
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Taste of solar power builds appetite for more in Kenya, survey finds
Fuel-seller Nancy Kaisa has for years used solar power to light her premises at the Entasopia shopping center in Kajiado, in southern Kenya. But recently she’s started using energy from a solar mini-grid system to operate her fuel pumps and meet her other energy needs, ditching her diesel generator.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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3 Futuristic Health Sensors That Could Save Lives
Entrepreneurs at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego on Wednesday showed off what they believe is the solution to lowering medical costs and bringing better care to the developing world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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Vodafone Americas Foundation Seeks Latest Connected Innovations to Enter the Ninth Annual Wireless Innovation Project Awards
The Vodafone Americas Foundation today opened the ninth annual Wireless Innovation Project™ (WIP), in search of the latest technology that will positively impact the global community. After supporting organizations such asMobile ODT, which uses a phone camera for colposcopies, and Nexleaf, which makes a vaccine monitoring platform, grow into scalable businesses through the program, the Foundation is calling for new applicants with connected solutions and wireless-related technologies. Online applications will be accepted from November 1, 2016 through March 6, 2017, with winners announced in June 2017.
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- Technology
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MIT’s New Accelerator Will Support Entrepreneurs Building Social Impact Tech
Starting a tech company is fairly easy now, if "tech" means yet another app. But the kind of technology needed to solve the world's biggest problems—whether it's low-cost water purification, nanoscale robots that can perform safer surgeries, or meltdown-proof nuclear reactors—tends to require more resources than an entrepreneur would have in the garage.
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- Technology
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Why Zuckerberg, Gates And Omidyar Are Investing in Fintech for the Poor
According to a report published in early September, Facebook is currently considering acquiring mobile money giant M-Pesa that launched in Kenya in 2007. While the news is not yet confirmed, it could be a sound deal for Facebook in terms of their presence in the sphere of online-remittances (what Facebook Messenger and other messengers are trying to develop right now) and projects like Internet.org to provide people from unbanked and emerging markets with access to digital services, which Zuckerberg has promoted a lot in the past.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, impact investing
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E-health startup Dr CADx wins Seedstars Harare
Computer-aided diagnostics startup Dr CADx was named the winner of the Seedstars World event in Harare, Zimbabwe, over the weekend, and will now proceed to the global final to pitch for up to US$1 million in funding.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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International lenders battle to keep up with Kenyan rivals as mobile borrowing turns into a craze
Six broke university students were sitting in a room at Maseno University back in 2013, discussing how best to spend their Friday night. Without money, however, their options were looking pretty limited and very dull. As they glanced down at their phones in the hopes of finding a miracle, one of the students came across a text message he had received from M-Shwari, a mobile loans product that had launched a year earlier.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa