Category: In the News

$500,000 to improve the lives of people in Yarrabah

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The Morrison Government has committed $500,000 for a feasibility study of a project that aims to improve living standards and community wellbeing in Yarrabah, Queensland. The Yarrabah Initiative is proposed by a consortium comprising of the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council and the Yarrabah Leaders Forum, Melbourne Business School, Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurship Program and Asia Pacific …

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PG Impact Investments invests in BroadReach and Vantage

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Globally, billions of dollars of private and public capital are dedicated to improving the health of those beyond the reach of traditional healthcare systems. However, lack of visibility and infrastructure make it difficult to deliver healthcare efficiently to the populations that need it the most and much of this money is spent ineffectively. This is …

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Markle sums up the indispensable value of data for Africa & the world

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Africa: Data Key to Unlocking Africa’s Development Prospects … data is knowledge, and knowledge is power. It is the power to put African needs and priorities first when determining domestic development agendas and plans. It is the power to ask and answer the questions most pressing to Africa’s people. And it is the power to …

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1.2 billion opportunities — The Economist Special Report on Africa

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Writer Daniel Knowles points to the promise We couldn’t agree more with Knowles that Africa’s market of 1.2 billion people holds huge potential for innovators who look past the commodity boom’s ending and the very real challenges on the continent to the opportunities to support 54 countries’ leaders in boosting the productivity of their people, …

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Public & private leaders agree: Africa’s future looks bright

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10 Reasons to Watch Africa in 2016 – Caroline Kende-Robb, Africa’s Progress Panel’s Executive Director, shares her view of unfolding scenarios Africa’s time has come. Having spent the last twelve years working in partnership with governments, donor groups, NGOs and private companies to bring systemic improvements to the wellbeing of people on the African continent, …

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Davos 2016 confirms — social entrepreneurs, our time has come

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Social entrepreneur: an on-the-ground agent for immediacy, a hothouse of innovation, and a connector of industry with the developing world for mutual benefit. I just returned from Davos 2016, invited to attend with my small cohort of fellow 2015 Social Entrepreneurs of the Year, awarded by the World Economic Forum (WEF)/Schwab Foundation. “Social entrepreneur” is …

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2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that reduce mortality of world’s poorest populations

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I am thrilled that three scientists who have focused on the world’s most devastating parasitic diseases — Elephantiasis, River Blindness and Malaria —will share the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine. These debilitating diseases affect hundreds of millions of people annually, overwhelmingly citizens of the developing world. The press release issued by the Nobel Prize elaborates …

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