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Article

1 Nov 2005

Author:
infoDev, Alcatel

[PDF] full report: "Promoting Private Sector Investment and Innovation to Address the Information and Communication Needs Of the Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa"

infoDev and Alcatel looked at five companies in depth: REOnet in Mali, specifically Project IKON, a teleradiology project; SIMpill in South Africa, which addresses real-time compliance management for long-term drug therapies; Pésinet in Senegal, a first line of defense against the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among 0-5-year-old children in SSA; Manobi, also in Senegal, a company that delivers market price information to farmers and fishermen in addition to geolocation and GPS mapping services; and MoPay, a mobile banking company based in South Africa.

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