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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There it brought teams of Google and LinkedIn employees to contribute code fixes and key feature enhancements to the open source mobile tools of our nonprofit project partner Mifos , whose mission is to enable financial institutions to become modern and digitally connected providers of financial services to the world’s 2.5 Martus Desktop 4.5

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Nigeria’s Sudo Africa raises $3.7M pre-seed for its card-issuing API platform

TechCrunch

Aminu Bakori and Kabir Shittu , founders of Sudo Africa, told TechCrunch that the opportunity to build Sudo was due to a problem they faced while attempting to issue cards at their previous startup: a mobile wallet system allowed users to aggregate existing financial institutions into a single platform and perform transactions. “At

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MFS Africa collects $100M to expand its digital payments gateway across the region

TechCrunch

And though calls are still expensive in Africa when compared to the rest of the world, the process of making them has become pretty simple thanks to mobile phone penetration and advancement in telecommunications. The London-based company connects more than 320 million mobile money wallets across 35+ African countries and 700 corridors.

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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

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But it is also evidence of a changing data culture within governments and evolving relationships with public and private funders of global health programs around the world. . “A “To do this, having up-to-date data on these diseases or epidemics is essential.” .

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Health tech startup mPharma acquires Vine Pharmacy, enters Uganda

TechCrunch

Abraaj also grew the pharmacy’s wholesale business, supplied government agencies and health institutions, and expanded to include personalized patient care through home visits. . Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Rwanda are the other markets the tech startup has operations in. The firm also partnered with Mt.

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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

TechCrunch

The potential for telehealth across Africa is vast and promising as mobile connectivity deepens, and innovations that could potentially bridge the doctor-patient ratio gap increase according to a Deloitte report. It is raising more funding to further grow its business across the continent.

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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

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But it is also evidence of a changing data culture within governments and evolving relationships with public and private funders of global health programs around the world. . “A “To do this, having up-to-date data on these diseases or epidemics is essential.” .

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