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February 19, 2013
Baseline Evaluation of the mHealth Ecosystem and the Performance of the mHealth Alliance
This report, released recently by Washington DC based mHealth Alliance, which provides details of a baseline survey conducted to learn more about the levels of adoption, actual implementation, funding and impact of mHealth in LMICs (Low and Middle Income Countries). Read more here, and read the report here.
February 19, 2013
Indonesia: New start up to access mobile money in Indonesia
Coda Payments, a new start up is looking to tap the mobile money market in Indonesia. Coda Payments has tied up with local operator Axis to make these services accessible. Read more here.
February 19, 2013
Implementing mobile money innovations to deepen financial inclusion
This post enlists all the successful mobile based applications for agriculture, finance and other services, that were enabled through access to mobile money. After a list of these successful mobile money enabled services, the author breaks each down into the details of what worked for each, and why. Read more […]
February 19, 2013
Samsung unveils low cost smartphones
Maintaining that ICT developmental agenda largely rests on the access to smartphones by the poor, we have flagged this news item as relevant. Samsung has recently added two entry level smartphones in its Galaxy line, making it cheaper for people to purchase smartphones. Read more here.
February 19, 2013
Bringing internet to rural Kenya
This post includes a video about the ambitious Mawingu Space Broadband Project, which is a part of Microsoft’s concerted effort to increase access to ICT through phones (read here), and now better internet connections, in Africa. Read more here.
February 19, 2013
Cameron to push G8 on finance bonds for new ‘social investment’
UK is a leader in the field of impact investment, and has successfully pioneered the use of a number of social impact bonds (SIBs) within the country. Using the advantage of its presidency this year at the G8, UK is now planning to develop new impact investment agreements, wherein member […]
February 19, 2013
AXA IM explores applying ESG factors to sovereign debt investing
AXA IM or the AXA Investment Managers have developed a new framework through which it is possible to analyse a country’s sovereign debt using ESG (environmental, social and governance) based criteria. Read more here.
February 19, 2013
James Sorenson makes US$13 million gift to University of Utah
Jim Sorenson, millionaire tech entrepreneur recently endowed a sum of US$ 13 million to the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah for the creation of an impact investment wing, due to be titled “James Lee Sorenson Centre for Global Impact Investing”. Read more here.
February 19, 2013
A guide to becoming a ‘Good Investor’
Investing for Good, in collaboration with New Philanthropy Capital and SROI Network has published a new guide which seeks to convince traditional investors of the benefits of making impact investments. Titled ‘The Good Investor’, this best practice guide details a 5 step investment procedure. Read more here and here.
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