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Public-Private Engagement for Better Health in Africa
While assessing the good, the bad, and the innovative, new report by the World Bank Group finds that public-private engagement is less than systematic. The Healthy Partnerships report evaluates engagement with private providers in 45 African countries. Lead author Connor Spreng, an economist at the World Bank, on the findings.
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- Health Care, Technology
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MOTECH’s Mobile Apps Bridging Rural Gap for Pregnant Women
Started in 2009, MOTECH is a mobile health platform that offers two main applications: mobile midwives and nurse services. Pregnant women and their families register for the cell service through community health centers. MOTECH boosts efficiency for nurses, to be sure. But it also gets low-income patients to think consciously about their health.
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- Technology
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Booting Up Tanzania With Help From Google
When Joshua Stern, a graduate of Stanford with a degree in computer science, served in the Peace Corps in Tanzania from 2006 to 2007, one thing soon became clear. "The major takeaway there," he tells Fast Company , "was that the best development work being done was being done by these local groups, community-based organizations." The small groups were often the most effective--yet they had no web presence, no effective way to communicate with other small NGOs or to raise f...
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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One Laptop Per Child … But What “Laptop”?
The convergence of PCs and mobile phones, is well under way. It’s hard to believe that transformation began in earnest just three years ago when Apple unveiled the iPhone. Today, Africans are turning their late adoption of technology to their advantage by leapfrogging landlines and personal computers to mobile devices, and developers are following.
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- Technology
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Guest Post: M-PESA Gets High Marks as It Goes Down Market
New data shows M-PESA’s reach is spreading down market while service and customer satisfaction are at all time highs.
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