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How Motorcycles Are Reducing Maternal Deaths in Kenya
The road on the slopes of Mount Elgon is steep and rugged. Trucks and tractors drive maize and vegetables down the mountain to sell in the town of Chwele and other parts of Kenya’s Western Province. Motorcycles are the main mode of transportation and are often used as taxis. Every few minutes one whizzes by carrying a passenger, sometimes even carrying three people at a once.
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- Health Care, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation
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Ford Sensor Technology Applied to Motorcycles for New Mobility Insights; Improves Medical Care for Rural Africans
Ford is expanding its use of sensor technology to motorcycles, helping researchers and programmers better understand how cars, bikes and other modes of transportation together can create new mobility solutions and make people’s lives better – including improving healthcare in rural West Africa.
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- Health Care, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Weekly Roundup 9-25-15: The Pope, SDGs and why VW’s eco impact lies matter to social enterprise worldwide
The setting couldn't have been grander for Business Call to Action’s (BCtA) sixth annual forum Thursday in New York City where the Sustainable Development Goals were the focus. The streets were buzzing with anticipation of Pope Francis’ arrival later in the day, but some were disappointed with his climate change pitch. We look at both, plus what B Labs can teach VW.
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- Environment, Transportation
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- transportation
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Uber Links With Kia to Expand Fivefold in Africa’s Biggest City
Uber Technologies Inc. is negotiating cheaper deals for new vehicles with Kia Motors Corp. to boost its number of drivers fivefold in the Nigerian city of Lagos, Africa’s biggest, to 3,000 by the end of next year.
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- Technology, Transportation
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- transportation
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Ford designs Smart Mobility in urban and rural Africa
U.S. automotive giant Ford has geared up to extend Smart Mobility for connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles and big data through Ford vehicles for reaching out to under-served communities in urban and rural Africa. The plan incorporates Data Driven Healthcare with a view to improving healthcare services in rural areas.
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- Health Care, Transportation
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- transportation
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Ghana: Bamboo Bike Ambulances for Dawea Community Health Center
The Bright Generation Community Foundation (BGCF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has scored a first in its effort to utilise locally available and sustainable materials to manufacture an easier means of transport for the health sector.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation
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Here’s Why Tata Power and Dabur Are Queuing Up to Assist Politicians in Rural Development
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's more radical calls to action was the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana where members of parliament were tasked with the responsibility of developing three villages by 2019, in constituencies other than their own. It's found resonance not just with politicians eager to establish themselves as more than just a local entity but also with a slew of corporates.
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- South Asia
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Getting Vaccines to People Who Need Them Is the Most Important Issue in Global Health
Fear of vaccines has allowed a host of diseases, including measles and whooping cough, to re-surface around the world in recent years.
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- Health Care