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How 3 Rickshaws Won A Million Dollar Prize
One team pitched an enterprise to bring fast and reliable web services to refugees, and two companies sought to connect displaced people to jobs through apps and digital workplaces. The winner this year is a startup called Roshni Rides, Bill Clinton announced at the end of the competition last Saturday. The former president, who began working with the Hult Prize in 2010, continued to speak but a roar of cheers drowned out his words.
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- Transportation
- Region
- South Asia
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Why it is so hard to fix India’s sanitation?
In 2014 the government pledged to end open defecation by 2019. That year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, who considered sanitation to be sacred and “more important than political freedom”.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- SDGs
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Report: Unitus Seed Fund’s Investments Impact 1.2 Million Lives Across India
Unitus Seed Fund, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early- stage startups innovating for the masses, today released its semi-annual impact report, which is now mapped to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Why Google Launched Tez Instead of Android Pay in India
It's certainly logical for Google to launch a mobile wallet for India's 300 million smartphone users. But it also might seem odd to introduce Tez instead of Android Pay, which already has footholds in Asia in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- digital payments
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Can Google’s mobile wallet Tez revitalise India’s struggling digital payments industry?
As Google debuts its new mobile payments app for India, Mumbrella Asia editor Eleanor Dickinson looks at the implications for the country’s cash-based economy and whether marketers are ready for change
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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We need solutions that can be scaled up, and that too across diverse regions: Shrikant Sinha
Nasscom Foundation chief Shrikant Sinha talks about why he believes scalability is more important than pure innovation and how technology-led innovations can help India transform.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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- South Asia
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- global development, scale
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Will Crowdfunding Become a Big Deal in India?
Crowdfunding — the practice of raising small amounts of capital from a large number of people to fund new ventures — is finally gaining traction in India. The question is: Will it deliver like it has in other markets?
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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OPIC Commits $20 Million Loan for WaterEquity’s Social Impact Investment Fund
Press release: WaterEquity, an innovation of Water.org, today announced it has received a commitment for a $20 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. OPIC, a self-sustaining U.S. government agency that helps American businesses invest in emerging markets, is supporting WaterEquity’s WaterCredit Investment Fund 3 (WCIF3), a $50 million social impact investment Fund that will invest in enterprises serving water and sanitation needs among the world’s poor.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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