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Esource: Cycling solution to gadget recycling
Our desire to buy the latest must-have gadget comes at huge cost to the countries and people who deal with our electronic waste. But could pedal power offer a solution?
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- Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Initiative for Global Development teams with Accenture to develop electricity, connectivity in Uganda
The University of Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (IGD) and Accenture — a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company — are taking the lead to empower disconnected communities in northern Uganda by harnessing solar energy to generate electricity for Internet and communications technologies, education and training centers, and new locally developed ventures.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s best tech minds to meet at Indaba
Three years on, in every way that counts, Tech4Africa continues to be the premier mobile, web and emerging technology event, and this year’s conference promises to be no exception, congregating some of the best minds in ICT today and bringing a greater than ever breadth and depth of tech talks.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rwanda: Microfinance Firm Boosts Agro-Mechanisation
A local microfinance institution, Duterimbere IMF Ltd, has launched new products that target the promotion of agricultural mechanisation among small scale farmers.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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World Hunger: The Problem Left Behind
THE drought-induced run-up in corn prices is a reminder that we’re nowhere near solving the problem of feeding the world. The price surge, the third major international food price spike in the last five years, casts more doubt on the assumption that widespread economic development leads to corresponding gains in agriculture.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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At UN-backed conference, African officials discuss path to sustainable development
13 September 2012 – Representatives from more than 40 African countries have gathered at a United Nations-backed conference in Arusha, Tanzania, to discuss the region’s strategy to achieve sustainable development and come up with an integrated strategy for the region to encourage environmental initiatives.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Uganda, Villages Reap Benefits of “Machine” Energy
Immaculate Kongai said she was quick to spot the potential of the Multifunction Energy Platform (MFP) as soon as it arrived in Usuk, her village in northeastern Uganda. Kongai grows and sells sorghum to local beer brewers, and has earned a reputation as a shrewd local entrepreneur. When the MFP—or, as she calls it, "the machine"—first showed up three years ago, she said she saw a chance to "make a lot more money" for her family.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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What is the Agaciro Development Fund?
Rwanda is setting the stage in driving its own development, starting with the launch Thursday (Aug. 23) of the country’s national solidarity fund.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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