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Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves: Enabling Markets Worldwide, 2011-2012

On its 2nd year anniversary, international organization GACC (Global Alliance of Clean Cookstoves) released their second year report which details its progress in areas of market development, research, outreach, standards, testing, and more. Read it here.

October 6, 2012

India: Sam Pitroda heralds the decision to use ICT in healthcare

Sam Pitroda, innovator, and one of the most important policy makers for the government of India has publicly declared the government’s intention of leveraging information and communications technology more intensively in bettering the country’s infrastructure when it comes to healthcare. Read more here.

October 6, 2012

mHealth Alliance, UN award 8 grants for maternal and child healthcare

The mHealth allowance, a global project founded by the UN foundation, the Vodafone Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation will be awarding grants to 8 institutions to provide maternal and child healthcare grants. These grants will be utilised to leverage internet and innovation in mobile technology to better expand the reach […]

October 6, 2012

India: Hot on US’s heels with mHealth adoption

There are large scale innovations happening in the mHealth sector in the US, along with a high adoption rate, as is well known through medical journals, new practices and summits dedicated wholly to this practice, marking US as a clear leader in mHealth globally. This post describes how India follows […]

October 6, 2012

mHealth overview of Africa

This post uses the data provided in the new report by the World Bank ‘Information and Communications for Development 2012: Maximising Mobile’, to distil facts that are relevant to the mHealth scenario existent and projected in Africa. Read more here.

October 6, 2012

Bangladesh: BPO to start its e-payment service soon

The BPO or the Bangladesh Post Office will soon unroll its electronic payment service, come November this year. This will enforce the adoption of mobile money across the country. Read more here.

October 6, 2012

India: Cisco helps banks fulfil the countrywide ATM presence requirement

The government of India has mandated that the banks operational in the country must have ATMs installed across the country, especially in the remote and rural regions of India. Towards this goal, the banks are being helped by the networking solutions being provided by Cisco through their ‘connected ATM solution’, […]

October 6, 2012

Keeping the change: How mobile money is better than cash

This post based on a recent study shows that a number of African SMEs lose a sizeable proportion of their profits – as much as 8 per cent because they transact in cash. In other words, as much as 8 per cent would be saved were the businesses to use […]

October 6, 2012

Rise of the mobile money, fuelled by the poor

Using data from the World Bank’s ‘well stocked pantry for the data hungry’, this post summarizes what the future of mobile money in the world is going to be. The conclusion tags the poor in the developing world as the leaders who will drive adoption of mobile money, as shown […]