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Mobile banking in South Africa – Will MTN be able to crack it?

MTN South Africa has made a renewed fresh attempt at cracking the code to grab a market share with the burgeoning mobile money market in the country. Their new product will offer the customers the option to make payments through their mobile phones, as well as make person-to-person transfers. Read […]

January 7, 2013

Mobile technology a game changer in the developing world

A number of phones used by the developing world are basic in nature, unable to provide the developmental benefits that smart phones potentially could. However, there is emerging evidence that a number of people in the developing world have now adopted the use of smart phones. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

Why the mobile phones may not be as inclusive as we think

A study by the Grameen Foundation found that as much as 22 per cent of their customers may not be owning that mobile phones through which they manage their money. While they do have access to mobile phones, these mobile phones are actually not theirs, posing as a considerable security […]

January 7, 2013

Tanzania: Government sets clean water targets for rural areas

The government of Tanzania has recently unveiled plans of focusing their efforts on the clean water needs of the rural areas of the country. The government has set itself a target of providing clean water to 65 per cent of all villages in the country by 2014. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

World Bank organizes global brainstorm to solve sanitation challenges

The first ever global Sanitation Hackathon will be convened in Cape Town, where global sanitation experts and journalists from all over the world would put their heads together to address the sanitation challenges in the developing world today. Read more here. This Hackathon will also be convened in Atlanta, Dakar, […]

January 7, 2013

Kiva’s method of scaling access to clean water

This post delineates how Kiva.org learns from the failed water access projects in the developing countries. According to this post, most projects don’t work because they fail to consult the end beneficiaries as consumers. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

Water.org and Zynga bring clean water to developing communities

Water.org has collaborated with Zynga, the online gaming company’s charity arm Zynga.org to scale the access of clean water to the communities in the developing world. Zynga has committed to donating 100 per cent of its profits from sales towards this cause. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

ADB grants US$ 40 million for clean water in Liberia

The African Development Bank has recently granted an amount of US$ 40 million to LWSC (Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation) to connect pipes so as to bear water to cities outside of Monrovia. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

Using a bottom up approach for sanitation in India

The MANTRA Project is a project undertaken in the state of Odisha, India by the NGO Gram Vikas. This project has won the Global +5 Award in Geneva for its sanitation model which has so far catered to 988 villages, including those in hilly areas without electricity. The group helps […]