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Today NextBillion is launching a new series: Going Off Grid, which explores new business models, investment strategies and public-private partnerships to bring services to the ‘energy poor.’ In 2011, Santa Clara University launched the Energy Map to share the findings that grew out of the work with over 60 distributed energy enterprises working across the world, including Africa, India, South East Asia and Latin America.
Lessons Learned from Over 60 Distributed Energy Enterprises : ‘Going Off Grid’ Series (pt 1)News
VENTURES AFRICA – The SME space is seeing tremendous growth in Africa, with easier access to funds from financial institutions and government policies encouraging sector growth.
Developing Africa Through Effective, Socially Responsible InvestingNews
Pressure is mounting on the Consumer Federation of Kenya ( Cofek) to stop opposing the award of licences to Equity Bank and two other Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) and support the venture.
Consumer Federation of Kenya fights off claim of bias in mobile money warNews
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has joined hands with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to connect over 2.5 billion adults who do not have access to a formal bank account, most of them in developing economies, by delivering digital financial services capable of improving the delivery of basic financial services.
Int’l Telecoms, Gates Foundation To Connect 2.5bn Adults To Mobile MoneyNews
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has established a focus group on mobile money, setting its sights on global financial inclusion.
International Telecommunication Union sets up mobile money focus groupBlog Post
In spite of its well-publicized struggles, the market-driven microcredit model remains a revered concept, linked to the belief that free markets and business solutions are the best solutions to poverty. But according to Milford Bateman, flaws in the market-driven model itself are responsible for grave challenges facing Peru and Mexico’s celebrated microcredit sectors.
Trouble Brewing in Microfinance?: Peru and Mexico’s microcredit sectors appear to be in danger of collapsing – and the market-driven model is to blameBlog Post
TB laboratories are expensive to build, staff and maintain. New portable facilities address these problems and might offer scalable lab services in low- and middle-income countries.
Mobilizing TB Lab Services: Portalabs offer high-quality diagnostic capacity at less cost than traditional facilitiesNews
Kolkata, June 24 (IBNS): CAMTech India, a new United States Agency for International Development (USAID/India) funded public-private partnership to accelerate medical technology innovation for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) in India, announced its first medical technology hack-a-thon in Bangalore on July 18-20.
Inaugural CAMTech India ‘Jugaad-a-thon’ launched
