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Safaricom’s M-Pesa Now Runs on Huawei’s Mobile Money Platform
Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment and services company, Huawei has announced that its Mobile Money Platform is now supporting the M-PESA service for Safaricom.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Drone Pilots, AI, Tweets and Texts Speed Up Relief Efforts in Nepal
They are known as digital humanitarians: the thousands of tech-savvy volunteers from around the world who are both physically and virtually converging on the crisis in Nepal and digging through mountains of data to help humanitarian agencies direct their aid.
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- South Asia
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After cracking down on Greenpeace, Ford Foundation, Indian gov’t could focus on Gates Foundation
After turning the screws on Greenpeace India and the Ford Foundation, the home ministry has now turned its gaze to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- South Asia
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- philanthropy
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Alibaba enters into strategic partnership with Indian mobile wallet company Paytm
Through its marketplace AliExpress, Alibaba has entered into a strategic tie-up with Indian mobile wallet company Paytm.
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Inside the Inflatable Hospital That’s Saving Lives in Nepal
For a doctor doing surgery, the most important things to focus on (besides cutting in the right place) are being fast and clean. That’s tough enough to accomplish in a brick-and-mortar hospital—let alone a temporary operating room in the middle of a disaster zone. But that’s exactly what Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, for you stubborn Anglophones) does best, and it’s what they’ve been doing for the past week in Nepal. A surprisingly critical part of that remote rescue? Blow-up tent hospitals.
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Priority Status for Solar Power Will Aid Smaller Players
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently revised its priority sector lending (PSL) guidelines. Now medium enterprises, social infrastructure and renewable energy (RE) will form part of priority sector, in addition to the existing categories. This has brought excitement to the stake-holders.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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- lending, renewable energy, solar
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In India, More Than 50% of Jan Dhan Yojana Bank Accounts Remain Empty
Nearly nine months after the Prime Minister’s Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) was launched, more than half the accounts do not have any balance.
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Why Is Pakistan So Far Behind Its Neighbors in Financial Inclusion?
Just this month the World Bank released the 2014 edition of its Global Financial Inclusion (Findex) database. Findex provides useful indicators on savings, borrowings, and payments made by people across the world. The data indicate that the global, adult, banked population stood at 62 percent as of 2014 end, but that still leaves a whopping 2 billion folks that still remain un-banked.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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