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Mobile Money Not As Useful As Expected For Banking Poorer, Rural Africans
Kenya’s banks came together this month to launch PesaLink, a new platform that will be integrated into all banks in the country, allowing users to seamlessly send money from one bank to another. The move signifies major new competition for Safaricom’s M-Pesa and other mobile money services, which launched initially to streamline the process of sending money.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Facebook plans to lay almost 500 miles of fiber cable in Africa for better wireless internet
Facebook has a new plan to get more of Africa online: Fiber optic cables. The social giant on Monday announced plans to lay nearly 500 miles of fiber cable in Uganda by the end of the year, infrastructure that Facebook believes will provide internet access for more than three million people.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Artoo Partners with Microfinance Institution Grameen Koota in India
Grameen Koota, a pioneer in rural lending, is expanding its product portfolio and venturing into Individual lending for its rural customer base. To this end, it has partnered with FinTech firm Artoo to develop a digital lending model to launch Individual business loans. Artoo’s intelligent digital platform will enable it to go paperless and reduce loan approval and go-to-market time significantly.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Telangana Launches India’s First Social Innovation Hub in Nizamabad
Telangana IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan made this announcement at the one-day Development Dialogue, an international social entrepreneurship ecosystem conference hosted by Kakatiya Sandbox.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Learning From Failure: Lessons From Nigeria About Integrating Technology Into Rural Health Systems
A study showed that most people living in a Nigerian territory lacked access to health care, leading to a radical eHealth pilot project. That pilot failed, but lessons learned ultimately led to a stronger and more sustainable eHealth framework in Nigeria and can help others who hope to integrate technology into health systems, especially in limited-resource settings.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- data, failure, rural development
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3 highlights about Shyam Sunder Bedekar’s Rs 2.5 sanitary pad and incinerator social enterprise
Rural innovations have something beautiful about them. Solutions made by innovators who are in sync with the surroundings and serving the need of the hour. Shyam Sunder Bedekar’s Sakhi pads and the low-cost incinerator make one such example that have been written about widely. YourStory also covered the story in November and it has been very well received by readers.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Zimbabwe: Cash Crisis Buffets Rural Businesses
It never rains but pours for the country's rural business person. On top of the many challenges confronting rural businesses is the cash crisis.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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To Stop Relying on Western Hand-Me-Downs, African Countries Are Importing Chinese Textile Companies
Every day the workers at C&H Garment Factory are required to learn a few words of Chinese. Today’s lesson, written on a whiteboard at the back of a humming factory floor, is the numbers 8, 9, and 10—written in Kinyarwanda, English, and Mandarin. “We’re a Chinese company so we want to introduce a little Chinese culture to them,” the textile company’s owner, Candy Ma, tells Quartz.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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