Digital infrastructure in Africa
This study provides an overview of digital infrastructure in Africa and compares it with digital infrastructure in the rest of the world. The scope is limited to the components of digital infrastructure
Mobile Phone
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Versatile mobile apps help Kenyan farmers shape new future
When she wants to know what seed variety to grow, Josephine Mutuku would take up her smartphone, open an app and types in the name of the crop and its region of cultivation. Mutuku, 38, is a farmer
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Infectious diseases could be diagnosed with smartphones in sub-Saharan Africa
The review, published in Nature, outlines how healthcare workers in low-income countries, like those in sub-Saharan Africa, could use existing smartphones to diagnose, track and control infectious diseases
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Cabinet nod for policy to boost manufacturing of electronics
The Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a new policy to boost electronics manufacturing in the country, offering cheaper loan-financing rates as well as well as easier credit access to companies to achieve a local
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2018 mobile industry impact report: Sustainable Development Goals
The third edition of the Mobile Industry Impact Report finds that the mobile industry’s impact has increased across all 17 SDGs, with mobile operators aligning activities with the SDGs and integrating
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Somalia economic update, August 2018: rapid growth in mobile money-- stability or vulnerability?
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Mobile phone radiation may affect memory in teens, worrying study reveals
Radiation from your mobile phone may affect your memory, a worrying new study has revealed. Researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have looked at the relationship between exposure
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Global findex database 2017: measuring financial inclusion and the fintech revolution
The Global Findex database is the world's most comprehensive set of data on how people make payments, save money, borrow and manage risk. Launched in 2011, it includes more than 100 financial inclusion
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World’s first microfactory to help tackle e-waste hazard
It can turn glass, plastic and timber into commercial materials and other products An Indian-origin scientist in Australia has launched the world’s first microfactory that can transform the components
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mHealth solutions for family planning services
<p>There is limited experience in India of using mobile phones for sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning, in rural areas where service coverage is still insufficient and accurate
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Mobile phones for maternal health in rural Bihar- Reducing the access gap?
Health programmes that are using mobile phones to improve maternal health in rural India are examined. Presented by its promoters as a universal, accessible and “smart” empowering technology, how mobile