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  • Kenyan Start-Up Is Looking At Nairobi’s Traffic Gridlock as a Business

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    “The traffic situation in Nairobi has reached unbearable proportions that we need a stakeholders’ conference to chart out short, medium and long term strategies to deal with the situation as an emergency.” Former Kenyan Minister ICT Dr. Bitange Ndemo said recently in his article for the businessdailyafrica.com. Dr.Ndemo’s sentiment depicts […]

  • Technology for Social Good

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    The India Social Good Summit 2014 was recently held by UNDP India at the Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi. The key message was ‘Technology for Social Good’. The summit showcased four technological innovations that were changing the lives of people for good. It was a rather apt location […]

  • Solar Power for Development

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    Mexican sun and German technology are the two key components of Gregor Schapers’ innovative project. Deep in rural Mexico, in a small town of 450 inhabitants called El Sauz, Schapers, a German entrepreneur, founded Trinysol, a firm specializing in building cheap solar reflectors for small local businesses to bake, cook […]