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The shipping containers tackling South Africa’s chronic childcare shortages
A social enterprise operating out of repurposed shipping containers is helping to tackle Cape Town’s lack of childcare facilities.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria: Twitter Users Share Four Billion Ebola Messages in a Week
In one week at the height of the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in West Africa in 2014, Twitter users shared over four billion Ebola-related messages.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NexThought Monday – Needed: A New Kind of Infrastructure: Digital infrastructure must be a priority – and the need goes beyond technology
For decades, the development community has stressed the importance of infrastructure, usually focusing on things like roads and water systems. But to ensure that the benefits of the mobile revolution reach the world’s poor, we now need to consider digital infrastructure as well. And as USAID’s Nandini Harihareswara describes it, this must include more than cell phone towers and Internet cables.
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- Technology
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Building the Business Case for Health Sector Strengthening
As the Ebola virus in West Africa wanes, multilateral and bilateral donors along with NGOs and country governments are making a concerted push to strengthen health systems across the developing world to protect against future health crises.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NexThough Monday – Facebook.org’s Budding ‘Walled Garden’: What it could mean for Internet consumers, developers in emerging markets
If Facebook.org becomes a significant part of the mobile Internet landscape in emerging markets, the model that it establishes may become the de facto standard. Yet Facebook remains firmly in control of regulating participation – and thus innovation – writes Bryan Pon, Research Director for Caribou Digital.
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- Technology
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Vodacom Tanzania Plans $100 Million Expansion in Rural Areas
Vodacom Tanzania Ltd., the country’s biggest mobile operator, will spend 200 billion shillings ($100 million) expanding its network this year to tap market potential in rural areas and add mobile-money subscribers.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Villagers Armed With Smartphones Can Help Stem the Rising Rate of Suicides in India
India has among the highest rates of depression in the world. If Deepika Padukone, a leading Bollywood actress, hadn’t talked publicly about her battle with depression, you probably wouldn’t know.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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A Better Way to Pay for R&D? (Part 2): Pilot projects designed to help get Health Impact Fund ‘across the finish line’
After pilot projects have shown the Health Impact Fund really works, Professor Thomas Pogge says, "It will not be difficult to get some far-sighted – and cash-strapped – governments to become HIF supporters. And an agreement to create the HIF might then be reached, perhaps at a G20 meeting."
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- Health Care
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- infrastructure
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