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Africa's Talking
Kenya
Africa s Talking is an IT company offering an API platform for building SMS and USSD applications in Africa.
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Angaza Design
United States of America
Angaza s Pay As You Go solution enables businesses to extend flexible solar payment plans to the billion individuals without access to grid electricity. Our platform allows manufacturers and distributors of off grid energy products to expand their customer base and access data driven market insights. Angaza s partners can launch their Pay As You Go program today without the investment of building and operating the necessary technology. Through a licensing model Angaza offers a complete Pay As You Go platform that redefines how off grid energy products are purchased financed and monitored in emerging markets. This presents an opportunity for over one billion people to purchase solar products for less than they currently spend on inferior energy options like burning kerosene. Angaza s Pay As You Go technology is suitable for a variety of products ranging from 1/2 watt solar study lights to 200 watt solar home systems as well as electronic clean cookstoves micro grid meters and solar water pumps. Angaza's Pay As You Go technology is used by manufacturers and distributors in 15 countries across Sub Saharan Africa Asia and Latin America.
| Energy |
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Anjna Patient Education
United States
Anjna is a 501(c)3 non profit company that addresses the healthcare crisis in the United States by designing building and implementing innovative mobile health solutions especially for safety net communities that are at greater risk for chronic preventable diseases. Using interactive and personalized text and voice messages we deliver actionable tailored medical content that improves appointment attendance medication compliance and disease self management skills.rn
| Education |
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Annona
Kenya
With Annona s customizable platform exporters can match the software to their company s business model instead of the other way around. Exporters can design their own mobile procurement system so their field officers can capture the data needed to make accurate and actionable reporting. This reporting helps them evaluate their activity and make data driven decisions. Importers and exporters use Annona globally to manage order inventory in multiple countries. Field officers input real time order fulfillment data that helps companies make better faster decisions. Annona is connecting stakeholders across the global food supply chain using mobile and web technology. The Annona platform is the first of its kind to digitize importers exporters aggregators and farmers together.
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Apollo Agriculture
Kenya
Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets increase their profits. Apollo use agronomic machine learning remote sensing and mobile technology to help farmers access credit high quality farm inputs and customized advice. Apollo first product is a customized package of farm inputs farming advice and credit delivered to farmers in Kenya.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Beyonic
United States of America
Beyonic aggregates multiple mobile networks into one point of access. This eliminates the need for organizations to build costly custom connections to multiple networks and allows for immediate adoption for payouts to employees or beneficiaries. Beyonic is a platform extendable with APIs that allow organizations businesses and software developers to build solutions that need access to mobile money.
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BlooSee
United States
BlooSee is an internet platform for everything ocean related. They offer free online and mobile services for sailors boaters divers surfers ocean conservation wind/kite sports fishing and anything else that has to do with the sea. They use geographic data to organize and source information from trusted institutions and a growing community of ocean loving individuals. It's members can access nautical charts wind forecasts routes crowd sourced information with the best ocean images and videos a boat database ocean focused groups and organizations and a simple to use mapping system integrated with amazing tools dedicated to ocean content.rn
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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COPIA
United States of America
Feeding Forward now COPIA enables businesses with excess food to instantly feed those in need. COPIA waste management platform provides businesses with an easy reliable and legally compliant way to get rid of their surplus food. This reduces disposal costs generates tax savings and directs food to people not landfills. They harness the power of technology to streamline the process of food recovery and redistribution giving people the power to fight food waste and hunger within minutes.
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Dimagi, Inc.
United States of America
Dimagi is a privately held social enterprise founded in 2002 with its headquarters in Cambridge Massachusetts USA. At Dimagi they believe that mobile solutions transform the efficiency quality and impact of service delivery programs globally. Their technology CommCare is an open source mobile data collection platform that enables anyone to build mobile applications. With CommCare can build a sophisticated and scalable mobile application at an affordable price.
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FoodTrace
United States of America
FoodTrace bridges the gaps in the food industry next level sourcing and management. They build better consumers while increasing revenues of restaurants markets and farmers. FoodTrace is a platform that uses big data and small business user profiles to link food distributors local farms and specialty food manufacturers with wholesale food buyers such as restaurants hotels schools and hospitals.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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GreenFingers Mobile
South Africa
GreenFingers Mobile is a mobile technology platform which manages and finances large groups of smallholder farmers in value chains.GreenFingers Mobile replaces pen and paper based management systems with real time big data to reduce transaction costs and enable the efficient inclusion of smallholder farmers in global value chains.GreenFingers Mobile was initially piloted in 2013 and fully established in 2015. The technology solution currently operates in three countries managing over 5000 smallholder farmers across commodities like ABE chilli soy sorghum and maize.
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Kinsa Inc
United States of America
Kinsa is transforming how people care for themselves their families and their communities using mobile technologies and products. These same products empower society with tools to track the spread of disease in real time and stop it.rnrnOur first product is a low cost smartphone connected thermometer. It allows us to communicate with people who have just fallen ill. The world s smartest thermometer it does not simply tell you your temperature rather it transform the way you care for your family. You can track your symptoms with a few simple taps to show your doctor later view the health weather in the local area or at your child's school to know whether it's strep or flu going around or book a medical appointment. It is also a better thermometer. We designed it with children and parents in mind. Using the smartphone's display we have created an engaging experience potentially making it easier to take a sick child's temperature. rnrnMembers of our team previously built international health programs that put more than 2 million people onto life saving treatments and started successful technology ventures.
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LaborVoices
United States of America
LaborVoices is crowdsourced supply chain intelligence. We gather intelligence on supply chain employers created by their workers entirely via mobile technology. LaborVoices markets intelligence products to Fortune 200 multinational brands and supply chain managers. We help brands detect emerging risks and choose the best suppliers help factories attract and keep the best workers and help workers to help each other make better decisions avoiding abusive situations.
| Professional & technical services |
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Mango Health
United States
We founded Mango Health with the goal of making one of the most important things you do every day—taking care of yourself and improving your personal health—easier and maybe even a little more fun. We hope you enjoy using the app as much as we enjoyed making it.
| Health Care Equipment and Services |
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mClinica
Singapore
mClinica provides data analytics and patient engagement tools for healthcare organizations in Asia's emerging markets. We connect patients pharmacies physicians and healthcare organizations in a digital network that improves market efficiencies and health outcomes.
| Human health & social work |
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Medic Mobile
United States of America
Medic Mobile s mission is to improve health in hard to reach communities. The mobile and web tools help community health workers clinics and families communicate so that more people receive quality healthcare. They are focused on identifying and addressing the highest impact opportunities to use mobile tools currently antenatal and postnatal care childhood immunizations stock monitoring for essential medicines and disease surveillance.
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Micro Benefits
China
Micro Benefits China provides Chinese factory workers with access to affordable safe and responsible credit appropriately priced life insurance policies merchant discounts and other beneficial products and services. Tens of millions of Chinese workers lack access to formal credit and in times of need must borrow money from inconvenient unsafe or illegal sources. Micro Benefits China addresses this problem through a proprietary lending system in which factory managers issue their employees credit cards that are guaranteed by future salary payments. As a result workers gain both additional financial freedom and a credit record that can support their future chances of accessing business or larger consumer loans.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Mobile Agribusiness
Mobile Agribusiness is a web and SMS based mobile app that enable farmers to obtain necessary information (weather crop pricing goods prices etc.) and skills (how to plant crops how to use fertilizers etc.) and connects them to the market Finally to help them to improve their productivity to empower their skills to increase their incomes and to enhance food security and nutrition in Congo. The app reduces delay farmers can have their goods in to the market the same days as they produce resulting by incomes increasing as the price of their goods depends to the quality and to be able to better discuss the their goods in the market as they have access to transparent market price information through the app. The app helps farmers to obtain also skills such as the uses of fertilizer will impact directly on environment as they will learn knowledge and apply new practices that contribute to sustainable agriculture it will help then to enhance their productivity.rnMobile Agribusiness is innovative because it's the first application that uses mobile technologies to support agriculture and farmers purposes in the democratic republic of Congo giving farmers not only information about the crop pricing weather etc. but also transparent market prices information and skills to empower their knowledge will enable them to better discuss their goods in the market. In definitive it's a new business model for farmers and agriculture sector in the democratic republic of Congo.rnMobile Agribusiness holds a potential to attract more young people as the incorporation of information communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet mobile phones computers and Global Positioning Systems associated or not with traditional communication technologies play an important role in mobilizing young people in agriculture.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA)
United States
The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) is a global movement that seeks to use mobiletechnologies to improve the health and lives of mothers in developing nations. With the support offounders Johnson & Johnson and USAID MAMA is currently developing projects in South AfricaIndia and Bangladesh.
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Movirtu
United Kingdom of Great Britai
Headquartered in London Movirtu is a subsidiary of BlackBerry. Movirtu develops and markets innovative identity solutions for mobile operators. Movirtu's patented Virtual SIM platform which allows multiple numbers to be active on a single standard SIM card enables mobile operators to deploy a range of compelling service offerings. Movirtu's technology has been deployed successfully building services aimed at extending market share where device ownership is limited. Movirtu now extends the use of this core technology to new markets with the introduction of the Movirtu WorkLife and ManyMe solutions and our latest innovation Movirtu CloudPhone.
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MUrgency
United Arab Emirates
MUrgency is a mobile app which connects people who need urgent medical help with credentialed doctors, nurses, EMTs and paramedics, nearest to them. With a mission to make one touch emergency response available to anyone, anytime, anywhere, MUrgency is building the largest first responder network on earth. MUrgency is being launched with membership in BCtA @ UNDP (Business Call to Action at the United Nations Development Program), in academic partnership with Stanford Change Labs, Harvard Asia Center and MIT Global Health, and as an initiative of the World Economic Forum’s Forum of Young Global Leaders Community.
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NextDrop
India
NextDrop solves water problems by using basic mobile phones to collect real time water delivery information from water operators in the field. NextDrop distributes this information to the people who need it city residents and engineers in the water utility. Their services help urban residents save time and reduce the daily stress of uncertain water while enabling utilities to become more efficient and more transparent.
| Water & Sewerage |
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Plataforma Saúde
Brazil
Plataforma Saude is a social impact enterprise that uses mobile cutting edge technologies to provide quick accessible and humanized healthcare to populations with limited access to primary care. The main service consists of a set of exams that identify the degree of risk for Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes hypertension and heart disease the major cause of deaths in the world.The company's award winning methodology has been designed in collaboration with physicians nurses and public health experts and is an innovative approach to healthcare worldwide being awarded by the United Nations MIT Forbes 3M the Inter American Development Bank and the governments of Chile and Brazil.
| Human health & social work |
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Remote Cycle
RemoteCycle is a management platform that lowers the costs ofrnservicing remote and unbanked consumers. Leveraging mobilernbanking the software automates bookkeeping billing and paymentrncollection processes for energy providers to MFIs in East Africa andrnIndia.
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Sprokit
United States of America
Sprokit is a mobile technology to reduce recidivism by better connecting re entering prisoners with parole/probation social services & rehabilitation programs employers families & friends.
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The Open Medicine Project
South Africa
The Open Medicine Project empowers frontline healthcare workers by creating clinical support mobile applications which are based on local and relevant in country standards. The apps freely disseminate vital content and decision support tools to the pockets and hands of healthcare providers. They are developed together with local health authorities in South Africa and in other under serviced countries. This ensures best practice within limited resource constraints less errors and better patient outcomes in Rural Primary Care Basic Emergency Care HIV and TB management in South Africa and other underresourced countries.
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Vendedy
United States of America
Vendedy is a social enterprise that connects global travelers to local street vendors via mobile technology. The founder is the daughter of three generations of Haitian female street vendors who noticed a need following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake when vendors lost most of their inventory and access to consumers. It was at that moment that Vendedy set off to digitize the street vending industry and make it a global conduit of prosperity.
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VerbaVoice
Germany
VerbaVoice the first and only provider offering writing and sign language interpreters mobile and online! Switch simply live text or DGS live video on the iPhone the laptop netbook tablet PC or smartphone.
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Wildflower Health
United States
Wildflower Health is building a mobile health engagement platform to improve healthcare quality and lower medical costs. Our team is passionate about harnessing user-centered design and technology to deliver products that drive smarter healthcare decisions. Over time, we aspire to leverage a unique set of analytics to deliver novel insights that improve treatment and cost-management in the clinical areas we support. We believe that innovative digital health solutions have the power to truly change healthcare.
| Health Care Equipment and Services |
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YuuConnect
United States of America
YuuConnect is a mobile engagement platform that delivers a smartphone experience through an interactive mobile recharging terminal. The venture aims at fostering the growth of smarter cities by impacting the communities they live in with job creation and public information accessibility. This is done by making access to digital technology free using their terminal which is designed to keep mobile users connected and on the go.
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