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Viewpoint: Can blockchain be the foundation of sustainable social impact?
Blockchain can impact the way that we identify things and the way that we interact and with the digital world. It has the potential to create a more transparent and fair society.
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- Technology
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Why do young workers in developing countries have so many injuries?
Health and safety at work can get ridiculed in more affluent countries as something nannyish and interfering - but for much of the developing world it is a matter of life and death.
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- Education
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Taps that don’t go dry: This summer, water ATMs to the rescue
The mobile water dispensing systems from Swajal and JanaJal are providing safe drinking water in rural as well as urban areas with the help of IoT and solar energy, reducing use of plastic.
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- WASH
- Region
- South Asia
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- global development, SDGs
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Investing in the energy transition
Technology to address the health and environmental issues associated with cooking with wood and charcoal has been developed in Cambodia, in efforts towards clean energy.
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Omidyar Network Makes Six New Investments that Address the Needs of the “Next Half Billion”
“Omidyar Network is looking to support early-stage businesses with the potential of creating access to jobs, education, healthcare, transportation, financial services, and government services for the NHB,” said Roopa Kudva, Omidyar Network partner and managing director, India.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Saving financial inclusion
I need no convincing that society requires people to be part of a formal financial system in order to thrive, nor that exclusion, whereby products and services are not available or are unaffordable, needs to be addressed. But it feels like financial inclusion has been engulfed by a focus on payments and transactions that misses its larger aim.
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- Finance
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Press release: Africa’s Biggest Farmer Collective to Help 100,000 in Niger Delta as Tata and John Deere Sign Alluvial Initiative
Tractor maker John Deere and India’s biggest conglomerate, Tata Group, have agreed a groundbreaking initiative to provide machinery to as many as 100,000 smallholder farmers in the troubled Niger Delta region.
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- Press release
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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When Student Could Not Find His Calling, He Used Architecture to Build Some Stability for Refugees
Upon further research, Scott learned that between 15-20 million of them still live in tents, essentially camping in terrible conditions for 12 to 17 years on average. Between that, and the general lack of innovation as it relates to shelters, Scott quickly realized he’d found his calling.
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- Uncategorized
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- global development, housing, refugees, SDGs
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