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Mobile phones are going to help small-scale farmers in Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan to increase production during the economic slowdown caused by Covid-19.
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As many as 250 million children across Africa are currently unable to access primary and secondary schools as a result of COVID-19-related closures.
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The Africa Communication and Information Platform (ACIP) for Health and Economic Action was launched last week by the UN’s ECA (Economic Commission for Africa) in collaboration with local operator partners.
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Ericsson recently marked the 20th anniversary of its employee volunteer disaster relief programme, set up to provide connectivity to humanitarian workers in disaster areas.
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Intelsat and Mindset Network NPC have extended their partnership to provide students, teachers, healthcare professionals and patients across Africa with access to free online educational content.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) is readying the launch of a new app aimed at stemming the spread of Covid-19 (coronavirus).
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The World Bank has approved $273 million in International Development Association (IDA) financing for four West African nations.
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Rwanda’s mobile industry has joined forces with the GSMA to drive mobile internet adoption and increase digital literacy in the country.
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Tata Communications subsidiary TCTS (Tata Communications Transformation Services) has partnered with the Smart Africa Alliance to launch its pioneering Skill Africa Program.
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CenturyLink has collaborated with Alphabet's Loon to deliver internet connectivity to tens of thousands of people cut off by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Peru.
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Ooredoo Myanmar, Facebook and the GSMA have launched a digital literacy campaign to raise awareness and increase adoption of mobile internet in Myanmar.
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Nokia and mobile operator Smart Communications are collaborating with the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) to bring innovative technology like LTE-connected drones and a portable network into areas struck by disaster.
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Net1 Indonesia is providing Free Wi-Fi access for refugees of the recent earthquake in Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB).
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Ericsson has expanded its Connect to Learn initiative in India.
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Social business incubator Ensemble Pour La Difference (Ensemble) is working to empower entrepreneurs in the Democratic Republic of Congo to drive positive social and economic change.
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Avanti Communications has announced the Satellite Enablement for Disaster Risk Reduction in Kenya (“SaTDRR Kenya”), aimed at enhancing Kenya’s ability to plan for and respond to disasters.
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ITC Global has been awarded a three-year contract renewal by Plan International for service to 24 sites across western and central Africa.
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Spain’s Telefonica, one of the world’s largest telecommunications groups, have agreed to work together to leverage the use of cutting-edge digital technologies for agricultural development, food security and nutrition in the developing world.
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NEC Corporation is supplying a wide-area disaster prevention system to the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency of the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesia).
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Caribbean telecoms provider Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W) has begun the successful restoration of mobile services to Dominica.
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The UN has confirmed that hundreds of families affected by last month’s deadly mudslide on the peripheries of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown are receiving aid in the form of mobile money.
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Souktel will develop an online platform to improve skills and information in Djibouti as part of a new initiative to address sky-high unemployment rates.
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A consortium led by Education Development Centre (EDC) Inc., with members including Souktel, has been selected by USAID Rwanda to lead a new five-year $22.5 million youth initiative.
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Pakistani operator Zong has set up a state-of-the-art 4G internet lab at Mashal Model School for marginalised street children.
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Intelsat S.A. is donating capacity to the American Red Cross to support relief operations in Haiti following the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew.
