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5 tech startup ideas that Kenya can export
Having pioneered mobile money solutions like MPesa and crowd-sourcing platform Ushahidi, Kenya’s innovative, resilient and global-looking tech community is working on the next big thing.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fast Lane to the Future: Three ways the ‘leapfrog effect’ is transforming developing countries – and revolutionizing finance
The “leapfrog effect” refers to the phenomenon, in fast-growing emerging economies, of technological advances permitting shortcuts in infrastructure building. This saves considerable time and money – and can deliver quick results that took more developed countries decades to attain. Here are three ways the leapfrog effect is reshaping economies – and finance – in the developing world.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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No Cardiac Clinic? No Problem: Handheld electrocardiogram monitor designed to provide distant, affordable heart care
Makers of Cardiotrack, a handheld ECG monitor, say it's easy to use, provides clinical grade output and performs predictive diagnosis to start intervention immediately, thus reducing the need for invasive intervention. Best of all, they say, is that it saves cardiologists’ time.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Weekly Roundup – 8/15/15: Coke goes fact-free in a week of missteps by multinational organizations
It's not easy being big. Especially when NextBillion's editors are on the lookout for Roundup fodder. This week we sharpened our elbows to take on Coke, the United Nations, Google ... and even the Catholic church. Let us know if you agree with our opinions; we'd love to run some counterpoints in an upcoming Roundup.
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- Health Care, NextBillion Originals, Technology
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Africa’s Leading Women in Tech 2015
South Africa paid tribute to women across the country on National Woman’s Day, which was held on 9 August 2015.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- entrepreneurship, technology, Women
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Google, Apple, Xiaomi and Foxconn Rush in as India Becomes World’s Hottest Smartphone Market
China may be the world’s biggest mobile market, but all eyes in the tech industry are now turning toward India, with its rapidly growing appetite for smartphones.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- Internet, mobile phones, technology
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Weekly Roundup 8/1/15: Kenya gets a pat on the back, then a lecture, and the Internet roars about Cecil
It was all about Africa this week, as President Obama (and a surprising tech luminary) visited Kenya, the country's Catholic bishops made a stunningly ill-considered public health intervention, and a lion-killing dentist in Zimbabwe became the latest person to break the Internet. We cover these developments in this week's roundup.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship, Health Care, NextBillion Originals, Technology
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Microsoft’s CEO Celebrated the Worldwide Launch of Windows 10 in… Nairobi
Of all the 190 countries where Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system launched yesterday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella chose to spend the day in Kenya. His visit came just days after the conclusion of the US-sponsored Global Entrepreneurship Summit and a state visit by president Barack Obama, where he hailed technology for “changing the way Africa is doing business.”
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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