Affordable Health Insurance for East Africans via Mobile Tech
Lilian Makoi with customers JAMII AFRICA In Tanzania, if you work in the formal sector, your job probably has health insurance. Unfortunately, only about 7% of the population falls into…
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Lilian Makoi with customers JAMII AFRICA In Tanzania, if you work in the formal sector, your job probably has health insurance. Unfortunately, only about 7% of the population falls into…
Sometimes the best solutions come from within the family. Shailendra Dhakad grew up on his family’s small plot of farmland in rural Madhya Pradesh, roughly midway between New Delhi and…
Mobile phones are everywhere. In fact, they may be nearly as common on the African savanna as they are on American subways. With the explosion of mobile technology in developing…
Releaf founders Ikenna Nzewi, Isaiah Udotong and Uzoma Bailey Ayogu Photo Credit: Releaf Releaf, which connects buyers and sellers of ag-related products and services, was selected for Y Combinator’s exclusive…
The public is occasionally made aware of the often unsafe and unhealthy working conditions where its clothes, electronics and other products are manufactured. Perhaps the most extreme recent example is…
A huge number of the world’s poor work in agriculture and many of those are in India and East Africa. Like other hot, dry climates many farmers rely on diesel-powered…
Photo: Getty Images KAKHIN BIMILE, Bangladesh — Kismat Ali is a 33-year-old mason living in Kakhin Bimile, a village a few hours drive from Dhaka, Bangladesh’s crowded capital. He lives…
Ennovent Impact Investment Holding has closed an investment round in Rajasthan-based healthcare provider Karma Healthcare. The company had earlier raised money from Ankur Capital. This investment in Karma is the…
The Green Pioneer Accelerator focused on early stage enterprises contributing innovative solutions to environmental issues such as climate change, energy insecurity, loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems. Over the…
CreditZakir Hossain Chowdhury/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images There’s poor, and then there’s ultrapoor. The ultrapoor are almost always women and largely found in Africa, South Asia and to a lesser…
Children with chalkboards attend a class inside a bus converted into a mobile “School on Wheels” by an NGO at a slum area in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.…
While there are many tech startups in India targetting the urban population, there are some impacting the lives of the rest 80 per cent Out of the total 1.3 billion…
How do you profitably sell to a customer who earns less than $2 per day? It is probably the most daunting business question in the world—as well as the most…
(Illustration by Mikey Burton) Entrepreneurs who operate in impoverished regions of the world face a quandary: Even though the need for their products and services is enormous, the challenge of…
In this guest post, Nat Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of Juhudi Kilimo highlights three innovative Kenyan start-ups, from solar pumps to credit companies that are helping to change the lives…