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The ‘Scrappy Rockstar’ of Global Health?: Maternova using Amazon-type platform to help save lives of mothers, infants in developing world
Maternova, a women-owned, women-run, for-profit social enterprise, has been described as "an Amazon-type platform, but for global health technologies." Allyson Cote, a co-founder, describes how her company is helping save the lives of mothers and infants in developing countries around the world.
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Verifying a Need: SimPrints wades into ‘identification crisis’ in health care, seeking global scale
SimPrints has developed a pocket-size fingerprint scanner that instantly links an individual’s fingerprint to his or her health records. The Bluetooth-enabled scanner allows health workers in the field in developing countries to make better decisions by providing immediate and reliable access to critical medical information.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Beyond the Metros: Exploring Western and Southern India’s Jaipur, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram
Villgro’s Unconvention|L team and Okapi Research, which are visiting nine tier III cities in India to map regional social enterprise ecosystems and outline highlights and insights. In today’s post they focus on Western and Southern Indian towns Jaipur, Pune and Trivandrum.
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Major donors launch new fund to support innovation
For some time now, major bilateral donors have been working independently to fund innovations and support startups, but a group of them announced Tuesday a new fund where they will pool capital to spur creative, pioneering interventions to tackle global development challenges.
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Nepal’s entrepreneurs healing blindness among poor
Many villagers are not aware of how easily cataract can be treated or cured," said Suraj Shrestha, CEO at Anthropose, a Nepal-based enterprise. "The thing that appalls me the most is how people superstitiously believe that cataract is a curse from God. This needs to change," the entrepreneur told Xinhua on Sunday.
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- Environment, Health Care
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The Trouble With Dirt: Floors can make people sick, so EarthEnable’s founders came up with a market-based solution, but are still testing models
Dirt floors in the developing world make people sick. Replacing those floors with concrete isn’t the answer, as it is prohibitively expensive. EarthEnable’s solution: locally sourced, earthen floors that are 75 percent cheaper than the concrete alternative.
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‘The Next Frontier of Financial Services’ (Part 2): Why some m-insurance models have more upside than others, according to BFA’s Jeremy Leach
"The (m-insurance models) that look best are the loyalty and ‘freemium’ models at this stage, primarily because consumers need the market-making capabilities of experiencing their product first, before they are willing to pay for it," says Jeremy Leach of BFA, in the second of a two-part series on microinsurance. He explores the risks and benefits of m-insurance in this Q&A.
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‘The Next Frontier of Financial Services’ (Part 1): Jeremy Leach, director at Bankable Frontier Associates, discusses microinsurance’s potential and challenges
Insurers have traditionally steered clear of the base of the pyramid, for a variety of reasons. But that’s changing, says Jeremy Leach of Bankable Frontier Associates, who sees insurance as the "next frontier of financial services." We discuss the state of the sector, and the challenges and opportunities it faces in serving the BoP, in part one of this Q&A.
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