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The Future of FinTech in Ethiopia - Webinar #3
In light of the new directives from the National Bank of Ethiopia opening the financial sector to other actors, we organised a webinar...
Nov 10, 2020
Future of FinTech in Ethiopia #2: FinTech as a Motor of Financial Inclusion
On November 3rd, the Pears Program hosted the second webinar event of the series organised with IceAddis and the Israeli Embassy in...
Nov 3, 2020
The Future of FinTech in Ethiopia
In light of new directives by the National Bank of Ethiopia, we have organised a webinar series together with IceAddis and the Israeli...
Oct 28, 2020
Spotlight on: Plethora
This month, we spoke to Effi Baruch co-founder and CEO at Plethora. Plethora is a Edtech platform teaching computational thinking. The...
Sep 30, 2020
Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19. Sustainable Development Report 2020
Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Lafortune, G., Fuller, G., Woelm, F. 2020. The Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The 2020...
Sep 23, 2020
Locust Innovative Response Initiative LIRI
After months of preparation, deep learning, and expert consultations, we finally launch the #Locust Innovative Response Initiative...
Sep 23, 2020
Spotlight on: Emnotion
At the occasion of Humanitarian Day this month, we spoke to Ilya Shapira co-founder and CEO at Emnotion. Emnotion develops climate...
Aug 29, 2020
World Humanitarian day 2020 - Humanitarian Innovation, What, Why, How?
On August 19th, we celebrate the 17th World Humanitarian Day. Each year, World Humanitarian Day focuses on a theme, bringing together...
Aug 20, 2020
Spotlight on Rural Senses
This month, we spoke to Yau Ben Or co-founder and managing director at Rural Senses. Tell us about Rural Senses! Rural Senses is all...
Aug 11, 2020
Spotlight on Mathika
This month, we spoke to Eyal Dessou Tzafrir, founder and CEO at Mathika. Mathika is an EdTech startup developing a web-based and mobile...
Jun 30, 2020
Mathika: An Israeli Educational Web-Application in Humanitarian Settings
For the last post of the series featuring inspiring technologies related to Humanitarian Innovation, we spoke to Eyal Dessou Tzafrir,...
Jun 25, 2020
Addressing Immediate Covid-19 Needs for Displaced and Host Communities in Cameroon
Today we would like to feature two amazing, inspiring and successful Cameroonian social entrepreneurs: William Elong and Arielle Kitio...
Jun 24, 2020
Response Innovation Labs: Sourcing Solutions To Tackle Challenges in Displacement Settings
At the occasion of World Refugee Day, we are happy to feature an important ecosystem player in humanitarian innovation and our partner,...
Jun 21, 2020
Rural Senses: An Israeli/UK Start-up Harnessing AI/ML to Improve Humanitarian Response
Rural Senses is developing an innovative solution for the collection of unbiased local community data and its rapid analysis using AI...
Jun 21, 2020
SolarFreeze: A localized durable solution to food security in Kakuma Refugee Camp
Solarfreeze, a Kenya-based start-up, is a successful localized solution to food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dysmus Kisilu,...
Jun 21, 2020
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