ICTDev Pulse

BizSpring Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Posted on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 03:00

African Diaspora send over $40 billion dollars in remittances every year, but is that enough to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship across the continent? Project Diaspora doesn't think so, and in response they've started the BizSpring Africa Enterprise Development Program.

No child left behind

Posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 18:15
No Child Left Behind?

Per paragraph 3, ‘each local education agency receiving assistance under the No Child Left Behind Act shall provide military recruiters the same access to secondary school students as is provided generally to post-secondary educational institutions or to prospective employers of those students.’
This bothers me.

500 Internal Server Error

Posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 17:00

500 Internal Server Error

India: MFIs increasingly raising money through securitisation…

Posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:40

30 Aug, 2010, 01.42AM IST, Shailesh Menon,ET Bureau
MUMBAI: Microfinance companies are increasingly adopting the securitisation model to raise capital. Over a dozen organised lenders have raised money over the past one year by selling their assets (micro-loan units) in the securitised form. This involves the pooling of similar type of micro-loans and repackaging them [...]

The Economist: Power to the people…

Posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:35

Technology and development: A growing number of initiatives are promoting bottom-up ways to deliver energy to the world’s poor
Sep 2nd 2010
AROUND 1.5 billion people, or more than a fifth of the world’s population, have no access to electricity, and a billion more have only an unreliable and intermittent supply. Of the people without [...]

India: ‘Citigroup will grow with India’…

Posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:31

New Delhi, September 02, 2010
Being the first Indian to head Citigroup, CEO Vikram Pandit says Citi will continue to support microfinance in India and work towards financial inclusion. Excerpts: Your job has been described as one the toughest banking jobs in the history… Leading Citi through one of the worst global slowdowns has [...]

SKS Microfinance Market Capitalization crosses US$ 2 Billion…

Posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:27

SKS Microfinance has risen by more than 30% on it’s issue price of Rs 985 .
The market capitalization of SKS Microfinance, India’s largest micro finance company which listed on the stock markets on the 16th August 2010 has crossed US$ 2 Billion in a short span of two week. The stock also made a [...]

e-Health in Peru: A Country Case Study

Posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:44

"The rapid growth rate of mobile telephony could be a great opportunity for the deployment of mobile health applications, not only for health care workers but also for the general public. Under the current disease monitoring system, it can take up to one month (or more) for a notification from a remote area to reach the central level. A disease monitoring system used by the Navy leverages the already existing telephony infrastructure (fixed, mobile, or satellite) to increase the reach of its sys

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