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Solving the Educational Disparity in India: A Scalable Solution Leverages AI and Behavior Change to Reach Underserved Communities
Around 37 million Indian children lack access to any form of early education service. Vishal Sunil and Sushmita Roy at Rocket Learning discuss how their organization is addressing this issue through its learning platform, which leverages AI technology and WhatsApp to provide free educational tools to children and parents, while offering training and other resources to the daycare workers who play a key role in the country’s early childhood development landscape.
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- Education, Technology
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LAfricaMobile Secures $4.6 Million in Series A Funding to Expand Cloud Communication Platform in Africa
LAfricaMobile plans to leverage the funds to propel its growth across Central Africa and further enhance its product offerings.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Microsoft and G42 Announce $1 Billion Comprehensive Digital Ecosystem Initiative for Kenya
The largest single private-sector digital investment in Kenya’s history will support economic development across East Africa.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Spatialedge, an AI Startup Based in South Africa, Secures $3.1 Million in Funding
Spatialedge, a South African startup providing data and applied artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, has raised ZAR60 million (US$3.1 million) to further its goal of revolutionising the retail sector.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microsoft Announces US $2.2 Billion Investment to Fuel Malaysia’s Cloud and AI Transformation
Today, Microsoft announced it will invest US$2.2 billion over the next four years to support Malaysia’s digital transformation – the single largest investment in its 32-year history in the country.
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- Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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Analysis: AI in Africa Opens up New Battlefront for China, US
The US and China are in a new race to shape the development, use and governance of artificial intelligence in Africa, even as African countries scramble to devise their own AI policies.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microsoft Announces US $1.7 Billion Investment to Advance Indonesia’s Cloud and AI Ambitions
Investment includes new cloud and AI infrastructure, major AI skilling initiatives, and support for Indonesia’s growing developer community.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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AI in African Healthcare: The Good, the Bad and the RECKLESS
Artificial intelligence (AI) can have a major positive impact on the cost and quality of healthcare in emerging economies. But as AI gains traction in Africa's healthcare market, Mark Wien at PocketPatientMD calls out an alarming trend: New AI solutions are being introduced into actual practice without the proper safeguards, standards and scrutiny. And even worse, these solutions are often being developed by non-medical professionals and technologists, who rush to roll out new tools without caution — and without acknowledging or perhaps even understanding the risks they pose to vulnerable patients and health systems. He urges Africa's healthcare industry — including doctors themselves — to address this issue with the seriousness it deserves.
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- Health Care, Technology