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MOTECH’s Mobile Apps Bridging Rural Gap for Pregnant Women
Started in 2009, MOTECH is a mobile health platform that offers two main applications: mobile midwives and nurse services. Pregnant women and their families register for the cell service through community health centers. MOTECH boosts efficiency for nurses, to be sure. But it also gets low-income patients to think consciously about their health.
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- Technology
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Ashoka’s Drayton: Education and the Future Marketplace
Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton views the more than 2,700 Ashoka Fellows as a sensitive Geiger counter for detecting big economic and social shifts. He sees critical gaps in empathy, teamwork, leadership, and change-making being taught to young people. The "parts of the world that do not master these traits will be left in terrible shape," he says.
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- Education, Social Enterprise