As we move one step closer to the end of the year, we’ve got a full slate of interesting tweets from the past week. They include some encouraging investments and new partnerships, important new research, and an intriguing reply from Safaricom to the recent NextBillion post calling on them to share their M-PESA data (see the bottom of the list.)
As always, if you come across something on Twitter that catches your eye, engages your brain or tickles your funny bone, let us know. Tweet general social enterprise topics to @NextBillion or NB managing editor @ScotterAnderson, global health topics to @NextBillionHC and financial inclusion topics to @NextBillionFI.
Be sure to check out our Top Ten Tweets every Sunday, and if you like what you see, give it a retweet.
Africa’s growing tech scene has VCs watching closely w/nearly $200M invested already in Q4 http://t.co/65I59HvWpe pic.twitter.com/MUtQklaKRY
— CrunchBase (@crunchbase) December 9, 2014
Looking for some positive stories about #globalhealth? Here’s 4: http://t.co/8uloPKPWNl pic.twitter.com/zrACOrI4ZY
— PSI (@PSIimpact) December 9, 2014
“Five ways social enterprise is changing the world” @GlobalEnvision http://t.co/KUOFHkWTDn #socent #innovation
— TechChange (@TechChange) December 10, 2014
Big #ImpInv news @Richardbranson & @MaRSDD announce partnership to create new Impact Venture Fund for #socent pic.twitter.com/fyB7R6Ok7N
— Joeri vd Steenhoven (@Joerivds) December 12, 2014
Gates Foundation Awards $11 Million for Financial Inclusion in Africa http://t.co/odffegjlA5 #financialinclusion
— Kubaru Microfinance (@kubaruorg) December 12, 2014
#NCDs that are treatable in developed countries can be death sentences in developing world: http://t.co/zx8edavd3f pic.twitter.com/bNSXLDrJEN
— CFR (@CFR_org) December 8, 2014
New @WorldBank Report Highlights J-PAL/@poverty_action Research: http://t.co/PReK0NsvGw, Calls for Redesign of Development Policy.
— J-PAL (@JPAL_Global) December 12, 2014
“It’s impossible to be good with money when you don’t have any. Full stop.” @Slate cc @m_sendhil http://t.co/nJnVcNgwFo
— Andrew S. Boozary (@DrAndrewB) December 7, 2014
Did you see it? Financially #Underserved Market Size report released today: http://t.co/UlEoU1eGHx pic.twitter.com/QHdaf9PGH8
— CFSI (@CFSInnovation) December 11, 2014
@NextBillionFI Feedback received and shared. ^MM
— Safaricom Limited (@SafaricomLtd) December 8, 2014
