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Rwanda Opens ‘First Entirely Homemade’ Smartphone Factory in Africa
The company is anticipating high demand for its products. Sebera says the factory has capacity to produce a "few million phones per year," which is expected to scale up as demand increases.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Capgemini Turns to AI to Fix Food Supply Chain Sustainability
Business consulting giant Capgemini has launched a project which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support farmers in improving environmental practices on their land.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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The Development Tool Nobody’s Using: Why it’s Time for the Women’s Empowerment Sector to Leverage Media and Advertising
In women’s economic empowerment circles, there’s no shortage of initiatives involving corporate partnerships with NGOs - often focused on agriculture or garment supply chains. But as Mara Bolis at Oxfam points out, this focus has led the sector to overlook other potential areas of impact – including media and advertising. Sharing some compelling examples, she argues that media could have as much – or even more – influence in shaping women’s economic opportunities as changes to global value chains.
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- Technology
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Revisiting our Assumptions About Digital Financial Inclusion: Three Unexpected Findings from BFA’s FIBR Project
When BFA launched its FIBR (Financial Inclusion on Business Runways) R&D project four years ago, it outlined a set of assumptions about how smartphones, increased connectivity and digitization would help to accelerate financial inclusion for small businesses in Africa. As the project wraps up, BFA Founder and Chair David Porteous explores which of those assumptions still hold – and which need to be reassessed as unanticipated developments have reshaped the market.
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- Finance
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World’s First Blockchain Smartphone to Become Available in Bangladesh
Finney’s launch in Bangladesh comes amid a trend of growing smartphone ownership in the country.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Apple to Launch New Low-Cost iPhone in 2020 to Win Customers in Emerging Markets
The new, cheaper iPhone could boost sales for Apple next spring, when the life-cycle of new flagship iPhones -- scheduled to be unveiled Sept. 10 -- would naturally begin to slow.
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- Technology
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India’s Mobile Payments Firm MobiKwik Reaches Rare Key Profit Milestone
The 10-year-old Gurgaon-headquartered firm said Tuesday it is now generating a profit excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Xiaomi Banks on Phone Data for Finance Play in India
The stakes are high for the world’s fourth largest mobile phone vendor, whose business model relies on low-margin hardware sales with services as a key long-term profit centre.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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