Inveneo
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BizSpring Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship
African Diaspora send over $40 billion dollars in remittances every year, but is that enough to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship...
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Bill_Easterly
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IAD on A-i-d
This post is by Claudia Williamson, a post-doctoral fellow at DRI.
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meowtree
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No child left behind
No Child Left Behind?
Per paragraph 3, ‘each local education agency receiving assistance under the No Child Left Behind Act shall provide...
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EthanZuckermanBlog
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links for 2010-09-02
Comparing Approaches to Information Filtering for Relevance by @ScepticGeek
Useful taxonomy of strategies to determine relevance within...
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ICTDev
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TheMiFiReport
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India: MFIs increasingly raising money through securitisation…
30 Aug, 2010, 01.42AM IST, Shailesh Menon,ET Bureau
MUMBAI: Microfinance companies are increasingly adopting the securitisation model to...
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TheMiFiReport
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The Economist: Power to the people…
Technology and development: A growing number of initiatives are promoting bottom-up ways to deliver energy to the world’s poor
Sep 2nd 2010...
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TheMiFiReport
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India: ‘Citigroup will grow with India’…
New Delhi, September 02, 2010
Being the first Indian to head Citigroup, CEO Vikram Pandit says Citi will continue to support microfinance...
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TheMiFiReport
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SKS Microfinance Market Capitalization crosses US$ 2 Billion…
SKS Microfinance has risen by more than 30% on it’s issue price of Rs 985 .
The market capitalization of SKS Microfinance, India’s largest ...
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dgateway
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e-Health in Peru: A Country Case Study
"The rapid growth rate of mobile telephony could be a great opportunity for the deployment of mobile health applications, not only for...
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dgateway
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Cell Phones May Have Potential in Global Health Arena
"The potential use of cell phones as innovative, cheap and efficient tools for public health was a primary theme in a Mobile Health Summit...
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MobileActive
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Factors Influencing Citizen Adoption of SMS-Based e-Government Services
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UNDispatch
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The Top Four Innovations in Emergency Response
Innovation is the word of the year in international relief and development. Here are four recent innovations we've...
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IntraHealthOPEN
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Demanding Accountability: Key for Continuing Gains in Maternal Health
I’m really pleased to hear discussion here in Delhi at the Global Maternal Health Conference about our collective accountability. For the...
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MobileActive
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Design of a Randomized Trial to Evaluate the Influence of Mobile Phone Reminders on Adherence to First Line ARV in South India
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MobileActive
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Mobile Payments Go Viral: M‐PESA in Kenya
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EthanZuckermanBlog
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Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
Heather Blanchard, Noel Dickover and Andrew Turner from Crisis Commons visited the Berkman Center Tuesday to discuss the rapidly growing...
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ushahidi
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What we learned from Haiti and where to go in Pakistan?
[Cross-posted from PakReport Blog, written by Jaro Valuch of Konpa Group]
It was clear pretty early after the earthquake in Haiti in...
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UNDispatch
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Why No One Wants to Upset Paul Kagame
Top UN Human rights official Navi Pillay announced she will delay the release of a controversial report about Rwanda...
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dgateway
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Apple's move pushes TV toward Internet delivery
Apple has announced that it will now sell TV programs from two networks via its iTunes store to the U.S. market; shows will rent at &0....
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dgateway
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Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channel gunman
A gunman entered the headquarters of the Discovery Network on Wednesday, September 1, 2010; he took several hostages, kept them for some...
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OLPCNews
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What Works? 2010 OLE General Assembly in Kigali, Rwanda
The second annual OLE General Assembly to be held on 11-15 October in Kigali, Rwanda, will explore what is known, what needs to be known...
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UNDispatch
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Angelina Jolie on Pakistan Emergency
The UN Refugee Agency's most famous spokesperson asks the international community to do more to help in Pakistan...
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Afrinnovator
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E-Tourism East Africa 2010 Live Blog
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dgateway
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Software for justice
To collaborate in the fight against human rights violations such as covert arrests, torture, and death squad killings, governments and...
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Bill_Easterly
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Be Careful What You Export
Our distant ancestors had a biological constitution awfully similar to our own, and, like us, only 24 hours in a day. Arguably the main...
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UNDispatch
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S-G Condemns Attack in West Bank; 'MDG Champions' Named; New ASG for Legal Affairs Appointed; and more
A daily roundup of insider news and opinion from today at the UN.
Middle East: the SG condemned the...
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MobileActive
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Community-Level Economic Effects of M-PESA in Kenya: Initial Findings
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Bill_Easterly
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Statement from CARE on Bruckner FOIA Request
AidWatch received the following statement from CARE regarding Till Bruckner’s AidWatch post on USAID and NGO transparency:
Statement from...
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MobileActive
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The HAART Cell phone Adherence Trial (WelTel Kenya1): A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol
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MobileActive
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If You Build It, They Will Come: SeenReport and Mobile Citizen Journalism in Pakistan
The devastating floods in Pakistan have been covered by trained reporters and mainstream media outlets around the world. Citizens, often on...
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TheMiFiReport
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Hints of the Subprime in New Microcredit…
John D Conroy | September 01, 2010
Enthusiasm for microfinance has surged since Professor Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank shared the...
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TheMiFiReport
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Thailand Post may provide microfinance centres…
Published: 31/08/2010 at 12:00 AM
Thailand Post offices nationwide could be transformed into microfinance centres as part of the...
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MobileActive
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Responding to the Human Resource Crisis: Peer Health Workers, Mobile Phones, and HIV Care in Rakai, Uganda
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TheMiFiReport
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Grameen Grows Its Microfinance Platform on Amazon’s Cloud…
By Penny Crosman Sep 1, 2010
We’ve recorded recently how Grameen Foundation — a U.S.-based nonprofit that builds on the work of Grameen...
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TheMiFiReport
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After SKS success, more microfinance public issues are on the horizon…
Namrata Acharya / Kolkata August 31, 2010, 0:55 IST
It was merely a coincidence that the year after C K Prahalad’s bestseller, The...
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MobileActive
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Building an SMS Network into a Rural Healthcare System
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EthanZuckermanBlog
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Media attention and dysfunction – a recipe for political cynicism?
I’m not very active in local politics. I follow international news more closely than the news of my hometown. In my defense, Western...
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IntraHealthOPEN
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Proud to be Indian and Making a Difference in Women’s Lives
Sitting here in Delhi at the Global Maternal Health Conference in the India Habitat Center, I feel proud to be Indian. Yes, in part it is...
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IntraHealthOPEN
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Proud to be Indian and Making a Difference in Women’s Lives
Sitting here in Delhi at the Global Maternal Health Conference in the India Habitat Center, I feel proud to be Indian. Yes, in part it is...
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WorldBankPSD
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End-of-summer hiatus
The PSD Blog is going on an end-of-summer hiatus for the next two weeks. While we're away, check out our most popular posts from August if...
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e_agriculture
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How ICT can make a difference in Agricultural Rural Livelihoods
Source: http://www.iicd.org By Jac Stienen with Wietse Bruinsma and Frans Neuman, International Institute for Communication and Developmen...
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UNDispatch
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Emergency Telecoms at Work in Pakistan (Interview)
When a disaster like the Pakistan floods strike, one of the most urgent priorities is making sure that all of the...
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OLPCNews
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Project Butía turns your XO laptop into a robot!
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As previously mentioned I spent my last day in Uruguay at ceibalJAM's second miniJAM! artistico (...
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UNDispatch
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Channel 16
Channel 16, a new effort from a coalition of NGOs, aims to be a fully crowdsourced multimedia resource on...
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IntraHealthOPEN
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Small Sums, Incredible Impacts: Microdonation Challenge to Support Health Worker Education in Malawi
Compared to some health interventions such as buying a bednet, educating a new health worker requires a relatively large sum of money, but...
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dgateway
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ICT Update numéro 56, août 2010 : Irrigation
D’après la FAO, l’irrigation peut quadrupler les rendements. L’installation d’un système d’arrosage fiable toute l’année permet aux paysans...
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dgateway
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ICT Update magazine, new issue: Irrigation
ICT Update issue 56, August 2010: IrrigationFigures from the FAO show that irrigation can increase crop yields by up to 400%. Developing a...
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ICTKM
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From the Roots, From the Stars – Scaling Up and Out
Some time back, we argued against top‐down approaches. But we also said that fruitful knowledge exchange was a two‐way street. Confused?...
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dgateway
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Mundus Maris
The Mundus maris association promotes sciences and arts for sustainability - inter-cultural exchange and international solidarity around...
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