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September 15, 2012
This is what internet helps achieve a man in Africa
While the internet gets more crammed with ‘half-baked’ political debates and suchlike, there are also people who use the internet as a tool for the way out of poverty – without help from any aid or development organizations. Read about the farmer in Africa who increased his income while curing […]
September 15, 2012
Etisalat Group to help with pan-Africa mHealth initiative
Etisalat Group will be helping with the pan-African mHealth initiative, a programme being supported by a consortium of global mobile operators. Read more here and here.
September 15, 2012
Cisco India leverages ICT to reduce healthcare costs in rural India
Cisco India is a firm believer in the use of technology in the lowering of quality healthcare costs for the rural poor, while also giving them access to services which otherwise wouldn’t be available to them. Read about Cisco India’s rural healthcare efforts here.
September 15, 2012
Mobile health around the world: the best mHealth initiatives for Africa
This is the second part of a post that compiles a list of social enterprises active in the health sector, leveraging ICT as an effective tool for the underserved, especially in Africa. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
mHealth reduces maternal mortality in Rwanda
In Rwanda, maternal mortality rates have tumbled over a short period of time because of RapidSMS, a text based service which was first piloted as a UNICEF programme. RapidSMS would help women with delivery, care of children within the first year and more through a network of local healthworkers. Read […]
September 15, 2012
India: RBI puts riders on cash-out facility by mobile operators
The central bank of India, the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) is now ready to allow cash-out facility by mobile network operators given that they act as banking correspondents, which would essentially act as the bank’s agents providing services to people in the unbanked areas. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
A calibrated approach to mobile payments
This post takes into account the progress made by mobile money in countries across the world. It examines models and talks about the ones that succeed, and the ones that don’t using several sources of information (hyperlinked in the article). Read more here.
September 15, 2012
Short message service (SMS) applications for disease prevention in developing countries
A team of scientists from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute recently released a paper called “Short message service (SMS) applications for disease prevention in developing countries”. Read more here, and read the report here.
September 15, 2012
Mozilla OS for the developing world
In the developing world, where smartphones from Apple and Google are still not widely used because of affordability, Mozilla Firefox is planning to launch a mobile operating system for the cheaper smartphones traditionally used in countries like these. The OS will be anywhere from one-third to one-sixth of the cost […]
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