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9 May 2017
Olou Koucoi founded Focus Energy, a company that brings light, news, and entertainment to people living off-grid in his country,...
22 March 2017
Entrepreneurs at mLab East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. Supported by the World Bank Group’s infoDev program, this business incubation...
30 November 2015
Thirty entrepreneurs from emerging markets traveled to Helsinki, Finland, to participate in the Slush Global Impact Accelerator,...
10 April 2017
Last month, Impact Hub Bamako celebrated its first birthday. The first of its kind in Mali, Impact Hub Bamako is part of a global...
15 March 2018
The public transportation market in the Caribbean is in urgent need of modernization, as lack of information and poorly planned...
16 March 2017
A market in Ramallah, West Bank. © Arne Hoel/The World Bank
Snapchat made its historic initial public offering this month...
5 January 2017
From Berlin to Cairo, from Medellín to New York City, new start-ups are flourishing in the heart of the city instead of occupying...
18 January 2017
Research shows that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are still male-dominated fields. According to the U....
20 December 2016
Last month, we returned to Slush, a global start-up conference in Finland. During a dinner discussion, a colleague from Boston...
24 August 2017
Farming is a tough business. Growing up on a rural Kenyan farm, Samuel Rigu saw firsthand how the acidity of the expensive,...