In a first by a sitting pontificate, Pope Francis delivered a talk over TED on Tuesday. His key messages - humans should be served by our technology and politics, not the other way around, and humans should not be relegated to a "culture of waste."
Philippine-based fintech startup First Circle raised $1.3 million to continue improving access to capital for SME's in the ASEAN region. The startup operates in a country where financing remains a major hurdle for so many businesses that less than 20 percent have access to all bank loans.
Woman-led startup Tala, dyslexia-screening platform Optolexia and novel eye-disease screening startup Tilak were among this week's selected weekly deals. Santa Monica-based Tala received $30 million to continue its work in bringing credit and loan products to emerging markets.
Mariángela Ramírez of Medellin-based Colombia Reports, a news hub of about 150,000 unique visitors for audiences in North America, Europe and readers of the New York Times, Huffington Post and Fox News, reports from the field on how three social enterprises are making impact in Colombia.
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A new generation of innovators from Africa were shortlisted in November for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.
Among technologies shortlisted was one aiming to revive the natural fibre market and help it compete with synthetic materials.
Others enable environmentally-friendly rock drilling for small scale mining,...