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Ghanaian Healthtech mPharma Raises USD $35 Million Funding Round
Ghanaian health tech startup mPharma has raised a USD 35 Mn Series D round to help build the startup’s data infrastructure, triple its talent pool over the next three years.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2021
At the end of each year, NextBillion selects our 12 most-read articles from the previous 12 months, and invites readers to vote for the pieces that impacted them the most. We've counted the votes, and we’re happy to announce our three most influential articles of 2021. We’d like to congratulate the winners and all the contestants in this contest – along with everyone who read and wrote for NextBillion last year. We wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous 2022.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- data, energy access, ESG, impact measurement
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Press Release: Datavault® Contracts With Agri-fintech Company Tingo To Deliver Data Revenue to Its 10 Million International Members
Partnership will focus on the continent of Africa and data monetization strategies within the farming, agriculture, and finance sectors.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Digital Revolution in Healthcare: How COVID-19 Has Accelerated Efforts to Close the Health Data Gap in Emerging Markets
In many emerging markets, there is a lack of accountable, accurate, real-time health information. With most medical information stored either on paper or on unconnected, often incompatible digital platforms, health statistics are largely disjointed, incomplete and inaccurate – a data gap that impacts every stakeholder in the healthcare ecosystem. However, according to Mark Wien at PocketPatientMD, this situation is changing. He explores how COVID-19 has accelerated the transition to digital data solutions, and highlights some key challenges to these efforts.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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The Systemic Reasons Behind the SGB Investment Gap: Why Investors Need Systems Data in Emerging Markets
Despite over-performing returns, venture capital investment in emerging markets accounts for only about 10% of total VC capital invested, and a significant financing gap remains for small and growing businesses (SGBs) in these environments. Jason Eaves at Discovered Markets presents several multifaceted reasons for this gap, and presents an unexploited solution: using systems data to overcome the biases and lack of market visibility that limit both investors' and other organizations' ability to effectively support SGBs in these markets.
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- Investing, Technology
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How Low- to Middle-Income Internet Users View Data Privacy and Protection: New Research From India and the United States
One side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increased adoption and expansion of digital services, including among low- to middle-income users. Decodis CEO Daryl Collins argues that it is becoming increasingly important to create a sense of inclusion and confidence among these consumers, as their usage of these services grows. She shares research findings that show how a sample of low- to middle-income customers in the U.S. and India are navigating the digital world – and what they think about the data-sharing these services are based on.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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World Bank Plans To Replace Cancelled ‘Doing Business’ Report in Two Years
The flagship report on countries' business climate was cancelled after a data-rigging scandal.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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- data
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Liquid Eyes Africa’s Largest Tech Markets After $250-Million Boost From IFC
IFC’s equity and debt investments in Liquid, which to date total approximately $250-million, will support the company to grow its hyperscale data center capacity in Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa through its subsidiary, Africa Data Centres.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, partnerships