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$2 Million-Backed Ouranos Lab Launches to Develop Innovative Enterprise Solutions Out of Africa
Ouranos Lab is a venture studio focused on building the products and solutions that will power the future of enterprise technology in Africa.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Interview: This Online Platform Is Helping Relief Agencies Send Cash Aid to Rural Somalia
Hormuud Telecom is helping donors reach millions of Somali residents engulfed by hunger and starvation, while eliminating the fear of terrorist attacks.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Taking Inspiration from Innovation: Key Insights from Eight Entrepreneurs Making an Impact in Emerging Markets
Whether they're working to increase smallholder farmers’ profits, promote water or sanitation solutions, or address other key needs in emerging markets, social entrepreneurs tend to face common challenges. That's why they must learn from each other if they hope to flourish. Brigit Helms at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship shares insights from eight entrepreneurs in Miller Center’s Clean Water and Climate-Smart Agriculture program, who discuss their innovations, the challenges they’ve overcome and the lessons they’ve learned.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise, WASH
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How Foreign Aid Can Innovate Itself Out of Existence: Exploring the Potential of Market-Creating Innovation for Sustainable Development
The foreign aid sector has long been criticized for its inability to generate consistent economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. According to Efosa Ojomo at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a new approach to aid is needed: one that recognizes the power of business innovation to create new markets that advance local prosperity. He discusses a new pan-African initiative based on that approach, which aims to mobilize aid, business and African institutions to build new markets that generate self-sustaining economic growth.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Analysis: Here’s How 16 Social Innovators Are Leading Change at Davos
The Schwab Foundation’s Social Innovators of the Year 2023 includes a list of outstanding founders, business leaders, and government reformers.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Loom Solar Raises $2 Million Funding from SIMA Funds
Loom Solar has raised $2 Million funding from US based Social Investment Managers and Advisors (SIMA) under the Energy Access Relief Fund (EARF) supported by the World Bank, DFC, BII, FMO, IFC and others.
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- Energy
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: How Social Enterprises Offer Big Businesses Pathways to Sustainable Innovations
Social enterprises already partner with business but there is much room for broadening the scope within value chains.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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COVID-19 Brought a Surge in African Healthtech Innovation, but How Viable Are the Startups Now?
African healthtech startups have gained prominence in recent years due to their potential to improve healthcare access and outcomes on the continent.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa