In March 2014, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report on climate change, which has been labelled a “call for action” by the chair of the IPCC as well as climate change scientists and governments around the globe. The report highlights a number of serious threats to the world unless […]
IPCC Report on Climate Change: Key Points
IPCC Report on Climate Change
In March 2014, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report on climate change, which has been labelled a “call for action” by the chair of the IPCC as well as climate change scientists and governments around the globe. The 32-volume, 2,600-page report arrives at sobering conclusions regarding the effects of […]
Mobile Money in Africa: Global Context (part 2)
In our previous post in this series, we took a look the role of innovation in the success of mobile based financial services, such as M-Pesa, in African countries. By contrast, the Western world has been marked by a safer, slower approach in recent years. It could appear as if the West has not seen […]
Mobile Money in Africa – Global Context
At Baird’s CMC, we have been closely following the progress of mobile phone based payment and money transfer services in Africa, which we predicted would be game-changing when they were first launched. In a recent series on this blog, we talked about M-Pesa, a mobile money service. With 17 million users in Kenya (more than […]
M-Pesa in Kenya: Lessons Learned
At Baird’s CMC, we have been closely following the progress of M-Pesa in Kenya – a mobile phone based payment and money transfer service we predicted would be game-changing when it was first launched in 2007. With 17 million users in Kenya (more than two-thirds of the country’s adult population) and 25 percent of the […]
M-Pesa in Kenya: Boosting Business
At Baird’s CMC, we have been closely following the progress of M-Pesa in Kenya – the mobile phone based payment and money transfer service we predicted would be game-changing when it was first launched in 2007. With 17 million users in Kenya (more than two-thirds of the country’s adult population) and 25 percent of the […]
M-Pesa in Kenya: Transforming Lives
At Baird’s CMC, we have been closely following the progress of M-Pesa in Kenya – the mobile phone based payment and money transfer service we predicted would be game-changing when it was first launched in 2007. With 17 million users in Kenya (more than two-thirds of the country’s adult population) and 25 percent of the […]
M-Pesa in Kenya: The Success Story
At Baird’s CMC, we have been closely following the progress of M-Pesa in Kenya – the mobile phone based payment and money transfer service we predicted would be game-changing when it was first launched in 2007. With 17 million users in Kenya (more than two-thirds of the country’s adult population) and 25 percent of the […]
Framing Climate Change
There is a growing global conversation about the need to “frame” climate change in a way that allows us to assess and discuss this issue more meaningfully than has been the case thus far. While climate change is increasingly relevant for all of us, it is not yet an accepted “social fact”, that is, it […]
PrEP: Interim Results from the PARTNER study
The PARTNER study is the second large study to examine whether people with HIV become non-infectious if they are on antiretroviral therapy. So far, the study has found no cases of HIV transmission involving someone with an undetectable viral load. The 2011 HPTN study found 96% efficacy of antiretroviral therapy reducing HIV transmission from the […]
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