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Khosla Labs & Unitus Seed Fund to Incubate and Back Up to Six Aadhaar-Based Startups
Bangalore-based startup incubator Khosla Labs has partnered with seed-stage impact investor Unitus Seed Fund to incubate and fund four-six startups working on the Unique Identification Authority of India (Aadhaar) project.
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OPINION: A New Direction for Global Health
It is easy to be discouraged about the state of international cooperation today, but global health remains an area in which the world has come together to do significant good. Over the last dozen years, international initiatives have delivered HIV/AIDS treatment to millions, expanded childhood immunization, and spurred a dramatic increase in global support for addressing other health challenges, from malaria to maternal health.
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Canadian Funding Supports Creation of Mobile Blood Lab in India
Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the federal government, is providing $1 million toward the development of a smartphone device that will test for diabetes and other conditions.
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- Health Care, Technology
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5 Reasons Today’s Leaders Are Focused on Using Wealth and Power to Create Impact
Leaders are migrating from figureheads to action figures. From bureaucrats to disrupters. From managing the established to creating and sponsoring more social impact.
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Twitter Top Ten – 12/14/14: Our favorite tweets of the week
As we move one step closer to the end of the year, we’ve got a full slate of interesting tweets from the past week. They include some encouraging investments and new partnerships, important new research, and an intriguing reply from Safaricom to a recent NextBillion post. As always, if you see anything you like, be sure to retweet it.
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Weekly Roundup – 12-14-13: Is wishful thinking sustaining or stopping global development?
In this week’s roundup, a $64 million (plus) year for off-grid solar investments in developing markets, the inspirational story behind Doorways to Dreams, and The New Republic essay that wants to put an end to wishful (scalable) thinking in development.
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- Energy
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PRESS RELEASE: OPIC Board of Directors Approves New Financing Commitments
The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) today held a quarterly meeting considering new projects for approval.
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Impact Investments Show Strong Returns, Survey Says
An overwhelming majority of "impact investments" met or exceeded financial and social-benefit goals, according to a survey released Thursday.
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