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Booster Teams to Breach the Rural Frontier of Digital Financial Services (DFS) in Uganda
In the context of rural digital finance, the concept of a “booster team” is a dedicated team that supports one or several organizations to distribute their products and services to the last mile population.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Samasource CEO Leila Janah passes away at 37
Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder of machine learning training data company Samasource, passed away at the age of 37 due to complications from Epithelioid Sarcoma, a form of cancer, according to a statement from the company. She focused her career on social and ethical entrepreneurship with the goal of ending global poverty, founding three distinct organizations over her career spanning the for-profit and non-profit worlds.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- nonprofits
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Press Release: WorldRemit Announces Global Remittance Partnership With Alipay
WorldRemit has announced a partnership with Alipay, the world's leading payment and lifestyle platform, enabling consumers to use the WorldRemit app or website for cross-border remittances to the Alipay app, bringing more convenient and inclusive transfer services to users around the world.
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- Finance
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Press Release: Ethereum Classic Labs Commits $1 Million in Partnership With UNICEF Innovation Fund to Promote Blockchain-Based Social Impact Solutions
ETC Labs will directly invest $750k in global startups that have graduated from the UNICEF Innovation Fund. In addition to the cash investment, the cohort of blockchain companies selected from the UNICEF Innovation Fund portfolio will receive support for project creation from the acclaimed developer team at ETC Labs Accelerate.
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- Technology
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China Looks to Robots, Big Data to Drive Agriculture Forward
The “Digital Agriculture and Rural Area Development Plan 2019-2025” acknowledges (in Chinese) that data resources are scattered and coverage rates remain low. But top Party agencies are serious about the digitalizing the countryside and building 5G networks in these areas.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- agtech, rural development
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Europe Wants Tech to Be Force for Good. Who Cares?
Climate change, social media topped the DLD conference agenda, but the tech is controlled by the U.S. and China.
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- Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- climate change, startups
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Vodafone Is the Eighth Company to Quit Facebook’s Digital Currency Project
British telecommunications firm Vodafone has pulled out of the Libra Association, raising further doubt that the digital currency will get off the ground this year as planned.
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- Finance
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JP Morgan Creates $100B Funding Arm To Help UN
“By defining eligible transactions and anticipating their impact, we can help attract much-needed private investment to developing countries,” said Daniel Pinto, co-president of JPMorgan Chase and CEO of the Corporate & Investment Bank
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- Investing
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