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Smile, The Pan-African Wireless ISP, Has Raised $365 Million to Expand Its Network
Three years after launching Africa’s first 4G LTE services in Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria, Smile Telecoms has raised $365 million.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Five Key Findings From the 2015 Financial and Digital Inclusion Project Report & Scorecard
Convenient access to banking infrastructure is something many people around the world take for granted. Yet while the number of people outside the formal financial system has substantially decreased in recent years, 2 billion adults still do not have an account with a formal financial institution or mobile money provider.
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- Uncategorized
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PRESS RELEASE: Tech-based social solutions competition looking for nominations
The competition, organized by Siemens Stiftung, seeks to identify innovative technical solutions to tackle global challenges in basic supply in the developing world.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- infrastructure
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Death rate goes up with distance from district hospital
Better access to district hospitals may have prevented close to 50,000 of the estimated 72,000 deaths in India due to acute or sudden abdominal conditions in 2010, according to a study published in Lancet Global Health journal.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- infrastructure, research
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Fast Lane to the Future: Three ways the ‘leapfrog effect’ is transforming developing countries – and revolutionizing finance
The “leapfrog effect” refers to the phenomenon, in fast-growing emerging economies, of technological advances permitting shortcuts in infrastructure building. This saves considerable time and money – and can deliver quick results that took more developed countries decades to attain. Here are three ways the leapfrog effect is reshaping economies – and finance – in the developing world.
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- Technology
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Bill Gates to Narendra Modi: You Need to Generate New Healthcare Models for India
After over a year in power, the Narendra Modi government's decisions to cut federal welfare spending on the poorest of India's 1.25 billion people have come in for a sharp criticism, including from within his cabinet.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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India’s missing patients
Lack of awareness and inaccessible healthcare have led to gross under-reporting of illnesses in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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NexThought Monday – Tapping the Potential of the World’s Largest Minority: Two keys to boosting employment for 70 million disabled people in India
After spending three months analyzing ongoing efforts to increase employment for people with disabilities at the base of the pyramid in India, the author saw two main problems: no collective goals have been established and there’s a lack of transparent impact data demonstrating the economic and social outcomes.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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