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Kenya’s Largest Bank To Provide 100% Financing For Riders To Acquire 100,000 Electric Motorcycles!

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The Group is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. In 2007, the KCB Foundation was established to implement the KCB Bank Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility programs and as a […]

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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In Kenya, for example, mobile transactions last year were up by about 20 percent over 2020, according to Capacity. EUREKA MOMENT After a 2007 visit to the Elmina Slave Castle , a former slave-trading depot in Ghana, Johnson had what she calls a “eureka moment.” Kenya was where mobile money became a success.”.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Improving neonatal care in sub-Saharan Africa In 2007 Richards-Kortum, Oden, and their team began developing technology to improve neonatal health care and reduce death rates in sub-Saharan Africa. Their first invention was a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine for newborns with breathing problems.

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New Award Recognizes IEEE Society’s Work in DEI

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Since 2007, IEEE IMS has appointed at least one female undergraduate, graduate, or IEEE Young Professional representative almost every year to its AdCom. The society also has increased membership in Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia. Ferdinanda Ponci was elected in 2010 as the IEEE Women in Engineering liaison.

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Global Fuel Economy Initiative launches second 3-year campaign; ICCT joins partnership

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This is a major update of the ICCT’s widely-cited global fuel economy chart based on the 2007 report. to have 20 countries in various stages of implementation by 2015 by which time the tool will be self-implementing and ready for global rollout.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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In February 2008, GRF became one of the first forests—and the largest—to receive verification as a source of greenhouse gas reductions under the protocols of the Climate Action Reserve , adopted by the California Air Resources Board in 2007. Calculating stored carbon; “additionality”.

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