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Health app targets African users
UK-based mobile strategy company Mobilium Global hopes to capitalise on smartphone penetration in Africa by launching the Smart Health application, to promote health and wellness among users on the continent.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Innovative business model introduced to benefit oil palm farmers
B-BOVID, an agribusiness based on social entrepreneurship principles, is introducing a unique profit-sharing concept to its oil palm enterprise which, will greatly benefit local farmers and their communities.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Computer Access for the Poorest at $7 a Head
Israeli start-up Keepod believes it has a low-cost way to bring the billions living in poverty into the digital age.
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- Education, Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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Empowering People With Cooking Stoves
Imagine spending 30 percent of your income on cooking fuel, inhaling the equivalent of 20 cigarettes daily while preparing meals for your family, and having to send your daughter to collect fuel for hours every day. What sounds like a far-fetched scenario is the reality of millions of people around the world in countries like Nepal, Darfur and Haiti.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care, Technology
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InVenture raises $1.2-million to help serve emerging markets’ underbanked
InVenture is a credit score for anyone with a mobile phone. In order to expand its phone-based personal finance software, InSight, which generates financial identities and credit scores for the underbanked in South Asia and Africa, the startup has recently raised US$1.2-million.
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- Technology
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The Best Buys in Global Health: Striking the Effective Balance
Innovation in both the development of new technologies and better delivery methods is critical. But here's where it gets more complex: An intervention must be designed from the perspective of the health consumer, and it must be affordable and have an effective delivery system.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Bottom Of The Pyramid Overspending On Mobile Services in Africa
Expert at a World Consumer Rights Day event in Nairobi said on Friday poor African’s are spending too much on mobile phone services to the extent of foregoing basic needs, ITWeb Africa reported.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Biocon Launches e-healthcare Programme in Odisha, India
Biotech major Biocon in partnership with Canara Bank and Odisha government has initiated an e-healthcare programme for the underprivileged and rural communities in the state.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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