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Facebook, Twitter Could Learn Social Responsibility from South Africa’s Social Network
MXit, a popular mobile messaging client that reaches an astounding 40% of South Africans , has an aggressive corporate social responsibility program that US-based social networks could learn from. In addition to live educational, drug, and suicide-prevention counselors, MXit recently added a civic responsibility app, Sm...
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A Mobile Banking Powerhouse Born From Bus Fare Theft
M-PESA , one of the world’s most rapidly expanding mobile banking systems, is transforming the banking sector in Africa. And it started, in part, when a thief stole bus fare from a woman who was participating in the M-PESA pilot. Until then, M-PESA was a microfinance initiative, but the victim’s husband used the mobile pay service to transfer fund...
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’Best Chance’ to End Polio – Bill Gates Promotes Vaccines and Food Programs to Attack Poverty
Washington, DC - The likelihood that few African countries will meet any of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, aimed at reducing severe poverty by 2015, has prompted a spate of studies, books and debates that examine development assistance. Many argue that aid, in general, has done more harm than good. Since leaving an operational role at Microsoft in 2008, Bill Gates has devoted full time to the premise that international assistance, sp...
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Africa’s Innovation Generation: Dynamos and Mobile Wiz Kids
Leapfrogging PCs, Africa’s burgeoning generation of mobile tech-savvy entrepreneurs is bursting with ideas and practical inventions, from African apps for smart phones to software solutions that address uniquely local challenges. In this installment of Mobile Message, Kenya-based Erik Hersman, a co-founder of Ushahidi , a free and open source platform for crowdsourcing information and visualizing data, writes about ...
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Afrilabs Links Entrepreneurs, Startups, Tech Communities in Africa
Erik Hersman, director of operations at the non-profit Ushahidi, today announced the launch of a network of startup incubators and tech communities throughout Africa. Dubbing the new ven...
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Nestle to Invest $1 Bln in Africa Over Next 2 Years
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nestle, the world’s biggest food group, said on Thursday it would invest 1 billion Swiss francs expanding capacity in Africa over the next two years. Chief Executive Paul Bulcke made the comments at the opening of a 12 billion naira factory to produce Maggi seasoning cubes in the southwestern state of Ogun in Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s second-biggest economy. "This latest investment is proof of our commitment to Africa in which we will invest 1 billion...
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Hopes and Fears on EU?s Africa Aid
By Elena L. Pasquini Mohamed Ibn Chambas has mixed feelings about the emerging collaboration of China and Europe to help Africa meet the Millennium Development Goals. While he welcomes such a partn...
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Nigeria: New Bakassi Chairman Talks Tough
Calabar - THE newly sworn-in Chairman of the New Bakassi Local Government Area, Dr. Ekpo Bassey has pledged his administration’s commitment to fighting poverty to a stand-still by building capacity of the youths and providing micro-credit to them to boost their businesses. Bassey who announced his plans in Calabar Monday after being sworn-in as chairman of the New Bakassi Local Government Area by the Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke his administration would collaborat...
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