YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

Microfinance institutions are able to offer more competitive loan rates to their users to take advantage of lower costs due to dealing in cash. In Kenya and Tanzania, over 25 million people use the M-Pesa mobile payments platform, operated by Safaricom and Vodacom, with money sent via text message. What are mobile payments?

India 100

India Mobile SMS Tanzania 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

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. Advances in 3-D printing will change the cost and efficiency of making a lot of products and even body parts or organs! Only time will tell.

Mozambique 100

Mozambique Ethiopia Tanzania Bangladesh 100

The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

industry in Tanzania. Riding the wave of global awareness for the need to stay competitive, Tanzania has taken some positive steps forwards, including government investments in a fibreoptic backbone as well as strategic initiatives around promoting start-ups. Marshall McLuhan wrote that “we shape our tools and then they shape us.”

Ecuador 144

Ecuador Tanzania Developer Silicon Valley 144

The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In both Rwanda and Tanzania ministers for technology spoke about how they see technology as the future for their the economic wealth of their country. We were surprised at how many female entrepreneurs pitched in the competition, particularly in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania. Governments supportive of technology.

Silicon Valley 148

Silicon Valley Tanzania Chile Rwanda 148