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Announcing the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digital Urban Services

Do you leverage digital technology to deliver urban services with social, economic and environmental Impact? if you do so in the fields of plastic and waste management, energy, water or sanitation, the newly launched GSMA fund could support you. Red on to learn more.
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Digital Dividends in Plastic Recycling

In GSMA’s new report, they explore the specific benefits that plastics organisations (for-profit start-ups or social enterprises that manage plastic waste collection and recycling) in LMICs currently reap, or could eventually reap, from using digital tools or services or partnering with technology organisations, such as mobile network operators (MNOs).
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution Needs Equality Tech

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a digital revolution disrupting industries and transforming societies. Our digital future must not be built on technology that contributes to reinforcing existing power structures and exacerbating inequalities. It must be founded on technology that advances equality and challenges harmful norms and stereotypes. The Fourth Industrial Revolution needs Equality Tech.
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Gender is a significant factor in private sector and disaster management

The Connecting Business initiative (CBi) new publication presents the importance of gender in private sector and disaster management, as well as the interconnections between these fields. It includes an introduction to the topic, the results of the research, a special chapter on COVID-19, three case studies and a mapping of close to 200 resources.
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Primary health workforce learning in an era of COVID-19: is digital delivery here to stay?

COVID-19 has forced us all to shift our ways of working, to rapidly innovate and adjust; and we have seen the extent to which this applies to primary healthcare workers. Not only the way in which they deliver care but also how these frontline workers are themselves supported and able to learn.
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2020 Hindsight to 2021 Foresight: Driving the Inclusive Digitization of MSMEs

In 2020, the modern economy became synonymous with the digital economy, and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth re-doubled efforts to help MSMEs survive and thrive. Here they share four guiding principles that they will be incorporating into their work in 2021 to help bring about an inclusive and sustainable digital economy that works for everyone, everywhere.
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I Am Purple: Youth-Focused Gender Empowerment

Every1Mobile shares lessons from ‘I Am Purple’, a youth focused Gender empowerment programme using digital platforms to change harmful social norms around gender equality among young men and women in Nigeria.
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Jocelyn Williams

Jocelyn Williams, Director for Business Development at Every1Mobile, shares 10 years of experience that they have built up implementing programmes in 17 African and Asian countries. Every1Mobile design and implement digital solutions that help people improve their quality of life such as: access to good health advice, encouraging people to create savings and helping young mums get information on motherhood – in countries including Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, and Uganda.
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How Africa is using medical drone delivery to combat COVID-19

Zipline helps national health systems react effectively to medical emergencies in remote communities. Here they share their past experience in combatting Ebola in West Africa, and their current role in Ghana and Rwanda’s efforts to plan and respond to COVID-19.
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Disruptive, digital, and local: the new reality for Latin American MSMEs

So far, Latin American MSME sector recovery forecasts remain pessimistic, mostly since they have yet to face structural barriers such as informality, lack of access to markets and inclusive value chains, as well as low financial and digital inclusion rates. Consequently, some international projections remain that more than 25 million people will enter poverty levels after the crisis. Do we know what that means economically and ethically for humanity? FUNDES identifies three specific gaps that affect the development of Latin American MSMEs in the traditional economy:
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UNGA2020 – Day 2 Webinar 1

Our webinar explored “Creating an Equitable Future,” discussing the role of businesses in addressing inequalities, both exposed by the pandemic and longstanding. Panellists emphasized
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An eye from the sky to view impact: Case of satellite imaging

Recent advances in areas of image processing methods, cloud computing and machine learning techniques, has made it easier to access and process satellite data. This article makes the case for how this offers us a new repertoire of options for measuring impact.
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Upcoming Online Event: Driving Digital Equity for the Most Vulnerable

As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Business Fights Poverty and Visa are convening a webinar and online peer discussion to explore how multilateral partnerships can drive digital equity for the most vulnerable.  This article gives a brief insight into the importance of digital equity, and explains how a wide range of organisations can play a part in driving change at a systemic level. 
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What are the innovations that could shape and transform the next decade?

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has released an issue brief outlining the business model shifts, emerging technologies and social innovations that could shape the next decade. The report is designed to help us think about the innovations that we can leverage in service of the SDGs, and those that we need to work harder to bring about.
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Ashish Gadnis

Blockchain is banded around as a silver bullet to solving transparency and traceability challenges. This podcast reveals what this means to reality. Meet award-winning serial entrepreneur Ashish Gadnis – as he demystifies blockchain, shares the trends he thinks we should all be thinking about and why his father said to him – “If you want to get out of poverty you can either programme or you can beg.”
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Natalia Cano

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The data revolution must accelerate food sustainability

Mobile payment systems, artificial intelligence, blockchain—such digital innovations have exploded in the last few years, and with good reason. Their capacity to harness vast amounts of data means they can improve transparency and decision-making for all kinds of industries—not least of all, for food production.
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The Cost of Cash to Ghana’s Cocoa Sector

Ghana is among the world’s leaders in the use of mobile money, but shockingly, the cocoa sector still pays upwards of 7 billion cedis (US$1.2 billion) every year in cash and checks to purchasing clerks, who then transfer it to farmers in cash. This means over 90% of the farmer transactions are still made in cash. Our organizations have released today new analysis showing that the costs and risk of cash to the cocoa sector are valued at more than $20 million every year, or more than 20% of turnover for all LBCs.
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Technology and Partnerships: Force Multipliers for an Inclusive Economic Recovery

Five tips for how social sector organizations can use technology to help combat COVID-19’s economic impact
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Inclusive digital payments solutions for the garment sector workers in Bangladesh

In March, when we announced the taka 5000 crore stimulus package (about $600 million) to pay workers’ salaries in export-oriented sectors, particularly ready-made garments which account for over 80% of the country’s exports, we encountered a major roadblock. Only 1.5 million of the 4 million workers were paid digitally. The rest were paid in cash.
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