M-PESA (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is the product name of a mobile-phone based money transfer service that was developed by Sagentia (later transferring to IBM in September 2009) for Vodafone. Safaricom, the leading mobile communications provider in Kenya, is pleased to announce the launch of [...]
HP Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and UNESCO have joined forces to launch a new education project aimed at alleviating the loss of intellectual capacity in Africa.
The project, called “Piloting solutions for reversing ‘Brain Drain’ for Africa”, supports both HP’s and UNESCO’s goals of strengthening intellectual and scientific capabilities in [...]
By Robinson Esalimba for Intellectual Property Watch and William New @ 2:40 pm
Greater awareness of the existence of open access information resources for innovation and making the information easily accessible and relevant to developing country users could help spur innovation in these countries, according to top technical assistance providers and local innovators.
In [...]
Cecilia Ibru, CEO of Nigeria’s Oceanic Bank International, is no stranger to crisis: she has dealt with the challenges arising from the present global recession in the context of Nigeria’s efforts at tackling issues—poverty, civil unrest, and corruption—that have kept roughly 70 percent of the country’s population below the poverty line.
In this interview, [...]
Cecilia Ibru, CEO of Nigeria’s Oceanic Bank International, is no stranger to crisis: she has dealt with the challenges arising from the present global recession in the context of Nigeria’s efforts at tackling issues—poverty, civil unrest, and corruption—that have kept roughly 70 percent of the country’s population below the poverty line.
In this video [...]
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