Low Impact

JUNE 27, 2021

Today I’m talking with Shaila Agha of the Sarafu Network about ‘chamas’ and mutual credit , and how they’re changing Africa. I think they’re a little bit wary, because blockchain technology isn’t easy. I truly believe that Africa is the new frontier. Really nice to talk with you Shaila. We’ve lost a lot.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

And some schemes in South Africa too? It’s a bit confusing, because at the end of 2019, we had 11 currencies, we’d gone digital, and trading was happening through ‘liquidity pools’ where a village could trade with another village, and we were experimenting with blockchain. Is that right? And some trade seasonally. Is that right?

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To address this issue the European Space Agency (ESA) has engaged the French-Slovak blockchain startup 3IPK and space solution provider Thales Alenia Space to develop a solution for managing traceability and ensuring the integrity of Earth observation data under its FutureEO programme. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Register now

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

billion EU-led Just Energy Transition partnership with South Africa, the country is facing a significant uphill struggle to develop the green infrastructure needed to achieve net zero, with coal continuing to be a key player in the country’s energy mix for the foreseeable future. Despite the $8.5 Have you read? Funding fundamentals.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Blockchain already features in energy projects from South Africa to Singapore, but questions linger over its significance in the overall energy landscape. What was the final word when industry experts came together for an animated debate?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The energy provided to JPMorgan Chase will be monitored utilizing ClearTrace’s patented blockchain-based energy-tracking technology to ensure that the electricity consumed is matched digitally, in real-time, to renewable generation. JPMorgan Chase will have an accurate and auditable view of its carbon footprint, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 1, 2022

Africa, and Nigeria in particular, is a key market for us, and we are excited to collaborate on a project that supports the elimination of routine flaring while simultaneously contributing to improved power utilisation,” says Tybring-Gjedde of the Nigeria initiative, the first of several in the pipeline in Africa.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Beer drinkers in the UK, Australia, South Africa, and Germany can now purchase Sol beer brewed with solar energy, after more than 9,000 panels were switched on at the Netherlands brewery that supplies the drink to more than 50 markets, Heineken announced today.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

– Blockchain: Opening doors in the energy sector. In a recent study, the IE A found that in 2019 the number of people without electricity access was 770 million and 75% lived in sub-Saharan Africa. More from Climate Council: – Green goals for heavy industries in the energy transition.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 13, 2022

“DEWA provides an advanced infrastructure for facility and services management through smart and connected systems that use the latest disruptive technologies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and internet of things.”. The AED 7 billion (US$1.9

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2021

Powered by accelerative technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, the cloud and the internet of things, digital ecosystems successfully marry forward-thinking partners and cutting-edge technologies to tackle the biggest threats that humanity faces today. One key area where this can have an impact is plastic recycling.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

MAY 3, 2018

Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain – Bloomberg. How JUST’s Oatmeal is Designed to Do Good and Make a Profit in West Africa. Precision Agriculture Project Reports Massive Water Savings – PR. Vultus and nHack to cooperate in Asia – PR. AgriFood Commentary. Post your press release on #feedit.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

MAY 3, 2018

Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain – Bloomberg. How JUST’s Oatmeal is Designed to Do Good and Make a Profit in West Africa. Precision Agriculture Project Reports Massive Water Savings – PR. Vultus and nHack to cooperate in Asia – PR. AgriFood Commentary. Post your press release on #feedit.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

And in particularly poverty-stricken regions like parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, there is an even greater difference. More than half of those in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa. What’s more, substantially all (99%) of these undernourished people live in Asia, Africa, or Latin American and the Caribbean.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Similarly, AI and blockchain can provide the visibility of inventory needed to reduce product wastage and enable smarter ordering, lowering carbon footprints. Ana Paula Assis is general manager for IBM Europe, Middle East & Africa. And maybe then we will be able to bring back a greater climate equilibrium to our future generations.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Under an agreement, San Francisco-based Salesforce will buy 280,000 megawatt-hours of clean power over the next eight years from small projects in Brazil, India, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, developed by aggregator Powertrust , headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Emerging new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence can help us to understand and identify areas to invest resources and increase positive impact. Au contraire, it is the reverse. The rise of multi-stakeholder initiatives.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 14, 2018

In 2014, IBM launched a 10-year, $100 million project to use its Watson cognitive computing system to help Africa solve business and social challenges. Google’s AI was able to slash energy use for cooling by an impressive 40% , saving significant money and carbon emissions. Enter Microsoft’s $50 Million “AI for Earth” Program.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 28, 2024

Capria Ventures, a Seattle-based venture investor in emerging markets, continues to deploy capital from its Global South Fund II, which achieved a first. The post Capria Ventures backs fintechs in Nigeria and Bangladesh to expand financial services appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 15, 2024

Regarding travel, the approach is rather than air to utilise sea freight, with the refurbished ‘St Helena’ – the once lifeline plying between England and South Africa delivering supplies and other services to the remote South Atlantic island.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

ImpactAlpha, November 10 – Nelly Chatue-Diop was a teenager in 1994 when her family lost much of their savings overnight with the devaluation. The post African startups develop crypto tools for inclusive prosperity appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 11, 2020

ImpactAlpha, March 11 – Africa’s healthcare systems are wrought with inefficiencies. The startup Field Intelligence is addressing the availability of pharmaceuticals with software that helps pharmacies forecast, manage and finance drug orders. The four-year-old company has raised $3.6 million in its first round of outside capital.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

ImpactAlpha, November 9 – The COVID-19 pandemic could have been development finance’s moment to shine. Such quasi-public investors, after all, have been trying. The post How technology is disrupting small-business financing in emerging markets – in a good way appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down. A strategist’s guide to blockchain examines the potential advantages of this essential innovation—and also suggests a way forward for financial institutions. Blockchain also has potential functions far beyond bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Gox in 2011.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Emerging new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence can help us to understand and identify areas to invest resources and increase positive impact. Au contraire, it is the reverse. The rise of multi-stakeholder initiatives.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To build a successful battery supply chain, Africa needs to move away from a legacy of mineral extraction and exporting of raw materials to investing in the existing opportunity to partner, beneficiate and manufacture. Afrivolt is developing Africa’s first lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility with a 5GWh installed capacity.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2022

Peace’ renewable energy credit scheme launched for vulnerable countries A crowd-powered solar future for Africa. Malakal on the White Nile in the northeast of South Sudan was destroyed in the country’s civil war that began in 2013 and now houses one of the largest camps in the country with more than 30,000 internally displaced persons.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 21, 2021

ImpactAlpha, October 21 – Crypto is having a moment in Africa. Dozens of African fintechs promising to democratize access to cryptocurrencies across the. The post Cameroon’s Ejara raises $2 million for impact-focused crypto appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Also of interest: Duke Energy Florida among four to ink energy trading membership Indian blockchain startup Voltreum – new kid on the P2P block. [link] #Invest #CleanTech #startups #portfolio #NGPartners pic.twitter.com/J0AURY9KOF — National Grid Partners (@ngpartners_) March 15, 2022.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role, Babatunde worked as a consultant at the World Bank Group, researching the effects of import duties and VAT on solar products in West Africa. She has developed internal trainings and external thought leadership on emerging industry trends in blockchain, decarbonization and decentralization.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

So I went to slum communities in Nairobi and Mombasa, and actually I was there the day they launched their blockchain wallet. In Africa they use a lot of ‘dumb phones’ (which is what they call them, because they’re not smartphones. It was a busy day for Will and his team.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A mere three years ago, my inbox was bloated with news about startups such as South Africa’s Sun Exchange or Estonia’s WePower or Australia’s Power Ledger focused on “democratizing” the ability of individual investors to back solar projects, often in emerging markets or communities off the grid or radar of traditional financers.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. Africa counts more entrepreneurs than any other continent. I think [the COVID-19 crisis] will just help accelerate that," he says.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Finally, Capetown, South Africa, is essentially out of water due in part to drought — the city nearly shut off all the taps this year, but has held off “Day Zero” through ongoing restrictions and aggressive citizen action. State Department to use blockchain to fight forced labor. Venezuela’s last glacier is disappearing.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Fast-forward to 2019, and blockchain is opening a new energy chapter, driven by smart technologies. Just a few years ago, the notion of a consumer-driven energy sector was unheard of, much less within the African context.

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