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Towards global food security
Early this year, a team of five MBA students from ESADE Business School, Spain, beat 56 other competitors from top-ranking business schools to win the regional finals of the fourth annual Hult prize in Dubai. The Hult prize is a student competition and crowd-sourcing platform for social enterprise, recently named one of the top five ideas changing the world by President Bill Clinton and TIME Magazine.
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- Technology
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Social Innovation in Africa: When a Young Girl and Prime Minister Share a Vision to Fight Illiteracy
Fighting illiteracy and advancing social innovation in Africa are different sides of the same coin. Worldreader joins the two visions with a scalable approach.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Car crashes should be a global health priority, scientists say
Given the personal suffering caused by traffic accidents -- 1.2 million deaths a year worldwide -- there's far too little attention paid by health researchers, scientists argued Tuesday.
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- Health Care, Technology
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GE Healthcare plans $2 billion investment for software development
Will focus on advancing current and future technology offerings through the convergence of machine and intelligent data
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Help end poverty, World Bank tells private sector
The World Bank is undertaking an ambitious goal to end extreme global poverty within a generation by encouraging the involvement of the private sector.
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- Technology
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Google’s Next Cloud Product: Google Blimps To Bring Wireless Internet to Africa
Not content with offering super-fast broadband in Austin and Kansas City, Google has plans to use blimps to deliver wide-area wireless internet connectivity in Africa and other emerging markets, according to reports in the the Wall Street Journal and a post on Google’s Africa blog.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A social media platform for the rural masses
Mobile Vaani is an interactive voice response system that enables people to share and create content
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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At Grameen Foundation, an international nonprofit becomes a software developer
The Grameen Foundation was providing health care to pregnant women in Ghana in 2010 when the organization had an idea: As cellphones become more widely available in developing nations, health information can be quickly disseminated to poor patients in remote locations via voice and text messaging.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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