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25 December 2016
In late November, four of the Caribbean’s top mobile entrepreneurs traveled to Slush, a leading technology conference held...
7 August 2017
High up in the Himalayas, where yak have roamed the mountainsides for centuries, generation after generation of Nepalese have...
12 December 2016
While East African tech entrepreneurs from countries such as Kenya and Rwanda may have captured the attention of the media and...
10 March 2016
In Kenya, a new law requires people use solar power if they are heating large amounts of water. A Kenyan company is helping...
7 June 2017
If you’ve ever been a student, you might know the feeling of trying to break into an industry without any contacts or access to...
22 May 2017
Afroes began as a small start-up in South Africa with a mission to “gamify” Africa’s 21st-century learning needs. The digital...
2 February 2018
In Tanzania, over 40 million subscribers have a cell phone, but only 4 million adults have health insurance. This is especially...
20 July 2017
Biniyam Tesfaye was working as an electrical power engineer in Addis Ababa in 2014 when he came upon a colleague one day weeping...
28 February 2017
Senegalese entrepreneur Abdoul Diallo is working to address two needs at once: young people’s need for training and digital start...
19 October 2017
Those of us who live in cities often have a romanticized idea of life as a farmer. We imagine clean living, healthy eating, and...