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Musk Vows affordable Starlink in India Days Before Ambani’s Record Jio IPO
Cheap data is the playbook that built Jio in India, and the one Musk has used in markets like Kenya to unsettle local telecom players.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Asia Pacific
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Right-Sizing IMM: Five Ways Impact Measurement and Management Can Work for Enterprises — Not Just Investors
Impact measurement and management (IMM) systems too often reward compliance over impact, extracting more than they’ve given back. According to Julia Mensink at Acumen and Heather Esper at the William Davidson Institute, impact data tends to be focused mainly on satisfying investors’ requirements, not informing investees' decisions — and gathering it often ends up consuming enterprises' time and resources and constraining their ability to create the impact they’re expected to measure. They share learnings from a gathering of IMM experts earlier this year, highlighting several ways investors, investees and IMM professionals can right-size these practices, aligning them with enterprises' actual decisions and integrating them into their core operations.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Civil Society Calls on the Human Rights Commission to Investigate the Human Rights Impacts of South Africa’s Data Centre Boom
South Africa is experiencing the fastest data centre expansion on the continent.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Group Foundation and Gates Foundation Launch First-Of-Its-Kind Maternal Health Multiplier Platform to Expand Access to AI-Enabled Maternal Health Care in Nigeria
By 2030, the initiative aims to help 500,000 women access trusted health guidance, equip 5,000 frontline health workers with tools to identify complications from pregnancy and childbirth early, and enable 500 health facilities to deliver more consistent, higher-quality maternal health care.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Crypto Moves in Minutes; The Law Takes Months
"Chainalysis' 2026 Crypto Crime Report estimates that $17 billion was stolen through crypto scams and fraud in 2025."
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Reimagining the Digital Architecture of Global Development: How Big Tech Can Bring the Sector into the Modern Age
The global development sector has grown into a sprawling ecosystem, including powerful multilaterals and millions of community-level NGOs worldwide. In the process, as social innovation advisor Rajat Ray explains, it has repeatedly reinvented its tools and techniques to handle the growing scale and depth of its work. But he argues that the reductions in traditional aid, the growing strain of modern operational demands and the emergence of advanced technologies like AI have brought the sector to a defining inflection point. He explores how its legacy tools and processes are falling short, and calls for a complete reimagining of the digital architecture that underpins global development, driven by multilateral leaders and Big Tech.
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- Technology
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US Agency to Invest $155 Million in African Digital Infrastructure Firm WIOCC
Washington has increasingly backed telecommunications and digital infrastructure projects in Africa as it seeks to provide alternatives to Chinese technology providers like Huawei, including through a $100 million loan to U.S.-owned telecoms operator Africell.
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- Investing, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: GSMA Warns of Growing AI Divide as Smartphone Costs Rise in Emerging Markets
The report highlights a growing threat to digital inclusion: a sharp increase in the cost of smartphone memory and chipsets, driven by global demand for AI infrastructure and data centres.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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