18/5/2016/Better Than Cash Mobile phones serving as digital “wallets” for payments to response workers proved an invaluable tool in Sierra Leone’s response to the Ebola crisis, according to a new study from the United Nations-based Better Than Cash Alliance (www.BetterThanCash.org). With economic instability, natural disasters and political conflict now taking […]
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Orange launches 6th edition of Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa, MiddleEast
The projects of 4 start-ups will be recognized during the awards ceremony with prizes of 25,000, 15,000 and 10,000, while 5,000 euros will go to the winner of the Special Cultural Content Prize 18/5/2016/Orange Orange is launching a call for candidates for the 2016 Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa […]
AfDB champions energy access and job creation for youth at the WEF
18/5/2016/AfDB At the just-concluded World Economic Forum on Africa, the African Development Bank reiterated the need to improve energy access to all in efforts to industrialise the continent. President Akinwumi Adesina, while participating in a presidential panel on Implementing Africa’s Development Agendas, said, “Without electricity, nothing happens. We need to […]
