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Three Megatrends That Will Affect Everybody’s Business

YoungUpstarts

For many mature economies like Japan and the US, the workforce will be older, healthcare costs will be higher, and it looks like we will see diminishing pension benefits. Infrastructure will need to be redone and rethought, creating a lot of openings for building and technology innovators. Explosion in technology. .

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11 Compelling TED Talks On Money

YoungUpstarts

It’s going to take a bit of time and even more money, but this former World Bank economist shares a strategy to forge a commodities market in Ethiopia, with the ultimate goal of creating a sustainable society. Eleni Gabre-Madhin: Ethiopian economics. Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature. Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world.

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“It’s hard to convey the impact seeing the work in person has on people” – Charity: Water’s Scott Harrison on Making a Difference

Hunter Walker

It’s still early days, but we launched a program called “ Pipeline ” and have now deployed 1,000 remote sensors in Ethiopia which are giving us not only functionality reports, but telling us exactly how many liters of clean water are flowing every day. The sensor costs only about $100, and can protect a $10,000+ asset.

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“It’s hard to convey the impact seeing the work in person has on people” – Charity: Water’s Scott Harrison on Making a Difference

Hunter Walker

It’s still early days, but we launched a program called “ Pipeline ” and have now deployed 1,000 remote sensors in Ethiopia which are giving us not only functionality reports, but telling us exactly how many liters of clean water are flowing every day. The sensor costs only about $100, and can protect a $10,000+ asset.

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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

According to Nepali government officials, it will cost over $6.6bn and at least five years to reconstruct and rebuild the country. The donations have most probably been utilized and the tourists are reluctant to visit Nepal. It will take years for the country to recover as its economy is heavily dependent on tourism. Source: Aljazeera).

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