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March 4, 2013
mHealth: Emerging High-Impact Practices for Family Planning
This draft brief is a part of USAID’s High Impact Practices (HIPs) in Family Planning. It notes the driving forces behind the popularization of mHealth projects, including the mobile phone market penetration worldwide, the shortage of health workers, and technological improvements. Read the report here.
March 4, 2013
Visa targets developing world through plug-and-play mobile money services
Visa has lauched a new plug-and-play mobile money platform, meaning it will host and manage all aspects of mobile money programme, on behalf of the providers – banks and telcos in developing countries. Partners in India and Rwanda have already signed up for this services. Read more here.
March 4, 2013
Nepal: MNepal to start offering mobile money services
MNepal Private Limited has formally launched its mobile money services in the country. This will enable member banks and financial institutions to launch mobile based customised services and products. Read more here.
March 4, 2013
Sustainable Access to Energy & Water through M2M Connectivity
This report by GSMA Community Power from Mobile explores the uses of M2M (machine to machine) GSM connectivity to leverage easier access to energy and water in poor communities. Read more here, and read the report here.
March 4, 2013
UN wants access to water and sanitation on the new development agenda
The UN has called on the developmental world to prioritize post 2015-developmental goals bearing in mind that access to water and sanitation remain severe challenges, and some of the most needed developmental parameters. Read more here.
March 4, 2013
25 countries to take part in march for water in March 2013
As many as 25 countries, with a number of African countries included are participating in a UN organized event called Walk for Water, wherein people will be taking part in walks to increase awareness and response for the lack of access to clean drinking water in parts of the developing […]
March 4, 2013
Water, sanitation and hygiene
This post by the Centre of Globalization and Sustanaible Development stresses the importance of access to sanitation, which is quite rightly estimated as the most off-track MDG (Millennium Development Goal) target of all. It discusses methods and effective models in Africa. Read more here.
March 4, 2013
The water creating billboard in Peru
In collaboration with the mayo draftDCB, the UTEC (University of Engineering and Technology), a new billboard in Peru has been set up which can produce pure water from atmospheric humidity. This provides resident with as much as 96 litres of drinking water. Read more here.
March 4, 2013
Sanitation: A Global Estimate of Sewerage Connections without Treatment and the Resulting Impact on MDG Progress
According to a research by ACS Journal Environmental Science & Technology, estimates of people without access to sanitation have been found to be double of previously estimated. Read more here and here. Read the report here.
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