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Developing Nation's Share of Global Investment to Rise by 2030

Seventeen years from now, half the global stock of capital, totalling 8 trillion will reside in the developing world, compared to less than the current one-third. Countries in East Asia and Latin America will account for the largest shares of the stock, says the latest edition of the World Bank's Global Development Horizons (GDH) report....

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Social Entrepreneurship

Boosting Ethiopia's Economy, One Shoe at A Time

For Bethlehem Tilahun, the answer to ending poverty in Africa is not aid or sympathy or donations from the West. It's shoes. Specifically, building a successful shoe manufacturing business that creates jobs, empowers employees, like the one she founded -- SoleRebels, the first ever global footwear company to come out of a developing country.

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Market place

Google Now service comes to iPhone

The Google Now service is being extended to Apple's iPhones and iPads. Until now the product - which suggests "answers before you ask" - had been limited to devices running Google's own Android operating system. Unlike the original version, Google Now only works within the firm's Search app on Apple's iOS platform - potentially limiting its appeal.

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Leadership

ICANN President Announces Major Expansion in Africa

ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer – a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world.

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Work place

It’s The ‘Post PC’ Era and Mobile Computing is Here to Stay.

Mobile computing is a growing phenomenon in the workplace and out with leading researchers already recognising the emergence of a ‘post PC’ era. As more people access IT applications and content by preference using their tablets, ‘phablets’ and smartphones, a whole new set of challenges and opportunities are emerging. In South Africa, however, the majority lag the mobility hype by about two years.

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Environment

Under One Per Cent of Clean Energy Technology Patents Filed in Africa, Highlighting Huge Potential for Exploiting Renewable Sources

A new study by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Patent Office (EPO)—Patents and Clean Energy Technologies in Africa—to be launched on Monday finds that Africa has a huge untapped potential for generating clean energy, but that the slow pace of technology transfer is preventing this from being fully exploited.

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Health

Psychosocial Course Aims to Heal Scars Caused by Libyan Conflict

IOM, in partnership with Tripoli University, has completed a six-month course for 31 Libyan health, educational and social experts on how to cope with psychological reactions in the aftermath of 2011 Libyan conflict.The “Psychosocial Responses in War-Torn Societies” programme was designed to increase knowledge and awareness of psychosocial approaches in addressing psychological and social impacts of collective violence.

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Education

Barbara Ackonor Receives Chevening/Mansion House Scholarship

Ms. Barbara Ackonor has been announced as the 2013/14 Chevening-Mansion House Scholar. She will receive a scholarship worth £23,000 which is jointly funded by Chevening (£15,400) and Mansion House (£7,500) to study an MSc in Finance at Durham University. Mansion House Scholarships are awarded by the Lord Mayor of the City of London in some of the countries he visits each year, in his primary role of promoting the UK Financial Services Sector and the City of London in particular.

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CSR Reports

LILIMED holds post-surgery clinic for cured lepers

Life for the Living Medical and Humanitarian Centre (LILIMED), has organised a post-surgery appraisal clinic at Godokpe near Ho for 49 cured lepers.Cured lepers have been beneficiaries of free eye surgeries under the auspices of the centre's within the past two years.

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Social Initiatives

Ghana gets First E-health Online Service

E-health initiative, an electronic health delivery system, was launched on Friday to enable doctors reach their patients online and bring health care to the door steps of the citizenry. The E-health initiative, a remote doctor/patient interface allows a patient to see a doctor without leaving his home or office. It does not seek to prevent patients from visiting hospital but to augment existing health care delivery services.

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Society

What Kind of Online Passwords Do You Have, Asks Kaspersky Lab

With the increasing importance of the online world and its impact on our daily lives, today people spend more and more time online using web-based services such as, social networks including Twitter, Linkedin, Skype, as well as email, online banking and so on. However, generally, each of these services requires us to use a password for access – the problem however is that too many people tend to stick to one ‘favourite’ password for all their online interactions – which can make them vulnerable to online attacks.

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Features

Microsoft holds NGOs Connection Day in Accra

Microsoft has held a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Connection Day in Accra.The event organised on the theme, 'Technology for Social Good' was to help NGOs harness the power technology in the delivery of their social services.

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African Leaders Ideas Exchange

Youth Forum to Address Africa’s Transformational Agenda as AU Marks Golden Jubilee

The month of May will be marked by celebrations to mark 50 years since the establishment of the Organization for African Unity, now the African Union, around the theme: “Pan Africanism and African Renaissance.” To mark the Golden Jubilee, the African Union Commission’s Youth Division and its partner the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will be organizing a Youth forum in Addis Ababa from 22- 25th May 2013.

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AfricanCEO

'Technology that Enriches Lives', an Interview on Huawei’s Work in Africa

Mr. Dafeng In a previous 'Huawei Android Challeng' event. (Image: CSR Africa Files)

CSR Africa’s Publisher, Dr. John Muthee met Mr. Dafeng, Huawei’s Regional President for East and Central Africa on the sidelines of the 5th BRICS summit at Durban, South Africa. Partly sponsored by Huawei, the summit brought the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa together in a shared goal of achieving peace, security and development through mutual cooperation.

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AfricanCIO

The Ghanaian Woman who Made Millions Fighting Skin-bleaching

Ghana's Grace Amey-Obeng, one of West Africa's most successful businesswomen, made her fortune promoting products which emphasised the beauty of the black skin, at a time when many of her competitors were selling dangerous skin-bleaching formulas. The business empire she started a quarter of a century ago with around $100 (£63) now has an annual turnover of between $8m and $10m.

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Lifestyle

Top 7 Face-Friendly Foods

Face-friendly food 1: Berries Berries act as the perfect healthy skin pick 'n' mix as they provide the perfect combo of antioxidants and vitamins

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