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9 Mobile Apps That Are Taking Social Entrepreneurship to the Next Level
As information technology has become more ubiquitous with business, its effect on social entrepreneurs was all but inevitable. The democratization of technology is empowering more people with information and creating value like never before. The mobile revolution has only taken this idea even further.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Press release: Ulula Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding to Improve Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains
Ulula, a software and analytics platform that equips companies with tools to monitor human rights risks, announced today it raised $1 million in private seed funding to expand its mobile platform that enables organizations to engage workers directly, in real time, across global supply chains.
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- Technology
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Opinion: What the debate about Safaricom dominance is really about
That Safaricom is dominant in the voice, data and mobile money markets is not really debatable. What is debatable is what the regulator plans to do about it.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya ops slam regulator for failing to curb Safaricom
Safaricom’s rival operators hit out at the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) for failing to deal with the market leader’s dominance, after it removed controversial recommendations to split the company from a competition report.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Top 4 African tech trends to look out for
With a young population of early-adopters and an improving infrastructure from telecommunications to payments, investment in Africa in 2018 is likely to eclipse record-breaking growth, and be driven by more post-seed capital.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Study: Access to mobile phones won’t magically fix youth unemployment in Africa
In reality the extent to which the mobile phone can support and sustain real improvement in young lives is depressingly finite unless significant interventions occur – particularly in the education and technology sectors.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The mobile phone gender gap: Why does it matter and what can we do?
Research shows that mobile technology has the potential to help women close gender gaps in outcomes like employment — phones can help job seekers connect to networks and learn about job opportunities.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Report: Mobile offers potential to drive progress in Bangladesh
In a report entitled Bangladesh: Driving Mobile-enabled Digital Transformation, the association noted the mobile industry can play “a critical role” in the country, helping to realise the government’s Vision 2021 initiative and driving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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