Podcast terbaik Ventures Africa (2024)

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How LLMs Will and Won't Work for Healthcare in Africa 36:13

4d ago36:13

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There's a lot of hype about what generative AI and LLMs like ChatGPT will do to improve healthcare in Africa and around the world - but is it going to work? Today we sit down with the team running the largest study ever done on how LLMs will - and won't - work for healthcare in Africa. Tobi Olatunji, Founder and CEO of Intron Health, speaks with Bi…

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AI for Health, Part 2: A Step Ahead 42:29

27d ago42:29

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How do global actors stay one step ahead of the risks posed by AI for health? In Part 2 of our 3-part series on AI for Health, we dive deeper to see what’s going on inside the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to safeguard the future. Today’s lineup includes: * Dr. Sam Oti of the International …

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AI for Health, Part 1: Promise and Perils 1:01:28

2M ago1:01:28

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With the mind-bending pace at which artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we work and live, healthcare organizations are asking themselves: what do I need to know today to seize this opportunity? In this episode, experts from the World Health Organization, IDInsight, and Reach Digital Health unpack the promise and perils of AI for health…

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The Medicine Supply Chain in Africa, Part 2: The Next 10 Years 22:38

7M ago22:38

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In 10 years, the medicine supply chain in Africa will look very different than it does today. In Part 2 of this podcast, we examine four key trends which are going to re-shape the medicine supply chain in Africa over the next decade - and shout out to a few of the entrepreneurs that are leading the charge. From regulatory changes spearheaded by the…

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The Medicine Supply Chain in Africa: from Manufacturer to Pharmacy (Part 1) 32:03

7M ago32:03

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What does it take to move a pack of medicines from a factory in India to the shelves of a mom-and-pop pharmacy in Zambia? In this episode, we explore the world of the medicine supply chain in Africa, as told by the people who run it. Along the way, we unpack the market dynamics which limit access to low-cost, essential medicines. Our lineup include…

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Introducing the Africa Health Ventures Podcast 2:03

9M ago2:03

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Unlocking access to quality healthcare in Africa by 2030 will require radical innovations. Join veteran digital health / healthtech entrepreneur Rowena Luk in conversation with healthcare industry leaders and innovators every quarter to strategize on what the future of healthcare in Africa will look like. This podcast is for social entrepreneurs, i…

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Chuck Slaughter of Living Goods: Digital First Healthcare Saving Lives at the Last Mile 45:37

10M ago45:37

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Chuck Slaughter is the founder of Living Goods, which supports over 10,000 digitally-empowered community health workers who are reducing child deaths by over 25% at an annual cost of under $4 per person. As a Senior Advisor to TPG Rise (a $10 billion impact investing platform), Director of the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and a successful entrep…

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Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Former Minister of Health of Rwanda 26:20

1y ago26:20

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Dr. Agnes Binagwaho is a pediatrician, former Minister of Health of Rwanda, Senior Lecturer at Harvard University, Advisor to the Director-General of the WHO, and co-founder of the University of Global Health Equity. She joins us today to talk about the role of technology in the remarkable transformation of Rwanda’s health system post-genocide. Wha…

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Investing in Healthcare with the World’s Largest Pure-Play Impact Investor 39:08

1y ago39:08

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Dr. Biju Mohandas has led investments at not just one but three different household names in impact investing: LeapFrog Investments, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Acumen. Tune in today to hear about his take on the upcoming global healthcare crisis, the competitive edge of entrepreneurs in Africa and India, and the catalytic role…

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Technology, Innovation, and the Global Fund 37:39

1y ago37:39

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John Fairhurst is the head of Private Sector Engagement at the Global Fund. As such, he is the link between this global institution and innovators ranging from Microsoft to Zenysis. Tune in today to understand how the largest financier of HIV, TB, and malaria programs works with Big Tech, emerging startups, and other innovators to achieve its globa…

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Nicole Spieker of PharmAccess Foundation 17:26

1y ago17:26

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When you dig into the problem of providing quality healthcare in Africa, sooner or later you hit the foundational question, “who is going to pay for these services?” In tackling this challenge, PharmAccess Foundation has provided health financing to almost 5M people in Kenya alone. A key part of this success is developing a digitally-enabled, finan…

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Curt LaBelle, M.D., Managing Partner of the Global Health Investment Fund and the AXA IM Global Health Fund 19:48

1y ago19:48

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GHIF was a "first-of-its-kind investment product", the fund was created in 2012 through the surprising alliance of the Gates Foundation and JP Morgan Chase. Its supporters include a stellar cast of characters such as Grand Challenges Canada, AXA Investment Managers, the development finance institution of both Germany and the World Bank, GSK, Merck,…

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Margot Cooijmans of Philips Foundation 37:33

1y ago37:33

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Margot Cooijmans is an impact investor, philanthropist, entrepreneur, corporate lawyer, and expert on essential Corporate Social Responsibility. For most of their existence, she has led Philips Foundation and Philips Foundation Impact Investments B.V. Tune in today to learn about Margot's career directing the contributions of global corporations to…

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Joseph Ssentongo of the Global Innovation Fund 41:12

1+ y ago41:12

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As the Senior Vice President of Impact at the Global Innovation Fund, Joseph Ssentongo works at the challenging nexus of innovation, evidence and impact. He sits down with Aid, Evolved today to share his efforts to generate evidence even from early-stage innovations; how to measure impact even when that impact might not mature until 10 years in the…

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Pippa Yeats of Turn.io: Sending a Lifeline to the People of Ukraine 23:48

1+ y ago23:48

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Pippa Yeats first built Turn.io to send reminders to mothers in South Africa about how to stay healthy. She never dreamt that she would be one of the first responders creating a lifeline to information in a country at war - after government websites and other channels were taken down by cyberattacks. In today's interview we retrace the event surrou…

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Andy Bryant of Segal Family Foundation 50:54

1+ y ago50:54

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In 2022, Segal Family Foundation was the second largest US grant-maker in Sub-Saharan Africa by number of grants given (below Gates and above Ford Foundation). We speak with long-time Executive Director, Andy Bryant, about the radical changes he introduced to address the challenges of traditional philanthropy, and how he made it work in practice. O…

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Andy Pattison of WHO: 12 Days to Launch the Largest WhatsApp Service in the World 38:21

1+ y ago38:21

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On March 8, 2020, Dr. Tedros asked Andy Pattison to set up the World Health Organization (WHO)’s global COVID-19 hotline, a process that would normally take months if not years. 12 days later, Andy and his team launched the largest WhatsApp service in the world. Tune in today to hear from Andy himself how it all went down. To find out more, access …

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Hannah Subayi: From Billion Dollar Fund Manager to Pan-African Angel Investor 53:29

1+ y ago53:29

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Hannah's done it all, from managing a billion-dollar fund to sowing the seeds for new ventures in Africa. She has invested directly in the companies who built the cell phone towers that are expanding connectivity in Africa and she's bootstrapping the entrepreneurs that will change how healthcare is delivered in the years to come. This conversation …

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Creating New Ways to Fund Innovations in Global Health with Rebecca Distler of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation 46:09

1+ y ago46:09

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Join us in conversation with Rebecca Distler, Strategist for AI, Data, and Digital Health at the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. She shares the trials and tribulations of a decade spent funding and fund-raising for innovations in global health - and how she's working to change the game, from supporting the Gates Grand Challenges initiatives through…

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Season 3 Teaser: Donors and Investors in Digital Health / HealthTech 3:52

1+ y ago3:52

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Season 3 of Aid, Evolved digs into the intimidating world of donors and investors in global digital health / healthtech. What's it like to walk a mile in their shoes? How are their actions and decisions influenced, be it by Congress or a Board of Directors, by tax authorities, by personalities, or public relations? We’ll peer inside the day-to-day …

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BongoHive: Building the Zambian Tech Sector from the Ground Up 45:50

1+ y ago45:50

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Lukonga Lindunda is a startup ecosystem builder. He is Executive Director and co-founder of BongoHive, an award-winning innovation hub and tech incubator based in Lusaka, Zambia, that is changing the landscape of entrepreneurship in the region. Lukonga is a Mandela Washington Fellow and has 15 years of experience working with entrepreneurs and deve…

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Robert Karanja, Villgro Africa, and the Next Frontier of Genomics Startups in Africa 44:50

2y ago44:50

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Dr. Robert Karanja recalls how he founded Villgro Africa, a tech incubator and impact investor focused exclusively on health innovations in Africa. Stick around for the end when Robert shares his predictions for the future of genomics on the continent and his hopes for a new kind of pharmaceutical company for Africa. Robert began his career with th…

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Digitizing the Largest TB Program in the World with Andrew Cross of Everwell 46:03

2y ago46:03

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Like another airborne disease we are all familiar with, tuberculosis (TB) spreads invisibly through the air. If you catch it and you don't treat it, you're likely to die. India has the largest TB burden in the world, with millions of cases diagnosed and over 500,000 deaths every year. Consistent, continuous treatment and management of care is essen…

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The Future of Pharmacy with Samuel Okwuada of Remedial Health 32:00

2y ago32:00

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In the heart of Nigeria's COVID-19 surge in 2020, Samuel Okwuada started receiving a string of phone calls from local pharmacies who were struggling to get stock during lockdown. They needed Samuel to deliver more essential medicines, in smaller quantities, to more locations, at the same or lower costs. This is an impossible equation for any tradit…

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Let’s Get African HealthTech Founders a Seat at the Table 44:56

2y ago44:56

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Mara Hansen Staples is on a mission to tear down the glass ceiling that stands between African innovators and global funding. She spent years talking to funders behind closed doors in Geneva, D.C., New York, and London. Throughout these conversations, she was always struck by the question: if our goal is to serve African markets, why aren’t there a…

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Alain Nteff of HealthLane: How to Close Investment, Precision Health, and Building World-Class Laboratories in Africa 42:08

2y ago42:08

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Alain Nteff is the CEO and Founder of Healthlane. Healthlane delivers precision personal health plans through a network of world-class laboratories in Africa. Alain's work has been lauded by Bill Gates and honoured by the Queen of England, the President of Rwanda and Rebecca Enonchung. Yet his approach to digital health has undergone dramatic chang…

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Throwback: David vs. Goliath with Mike Quinn of Zoona 47:36

2y ago47:36

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Mike Quinn was co-founder and CEO of one Africa's earliest major financial technology (FinTech) companies, Zoona. He raised over 35 million dollars of international investment for this Zambian startup - before its heartbreaking crash and Mike's exit from the company. In the conversation today, Mike shares how this Canadian engineer first came to Af…

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Femi Kuti of Reliance Health: Are You Fulfilling Your Mission? 48:21

2y ago48:21

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Femi Kuti is the CEO and co-Founder of Reliance Health - an HMO using tech to make quality healthcare delightful, affordable, and accessible in emerging markets. Earlier this year they raised $40M through their Series B financing. This makes it the largest raise of its kind in the history of African health tech. Despite this success, Femi is a humb…

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Yetunde Ayo-Oyalowo of Market Doctors: Taking Healthcare out of the Ivory Tower 39:32

2y ago39:32

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Yetunde Ayo-Oyalowo founded Market Doctors based on the idea of bringing healthcare to people where they live and work. Market Doctors is a social enterprise that deploys doctors and other health workers outside of health institutions and in the public markets of Nigeria. Here they provide healthcare without disrupting the economic activities of co…

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Chrispinus Onyancha of clinicPesa: How to Lift Yourself Up in Business 30:03

2y ago30:03

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Chrispinus Onyancha is the Founder and CEO of clinicPesa. clinicPesa is a FinTech company that provides affordable healthcare financing to the uninsured in Africa through mobile money. This is the story of Eng. Onyancha Chrispinus the Founder and CEO of clinicPesa. It's the story of how he was able to rise, first to the top of his class and then to…

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Alloysius Attah of Farmerline: Go Big or Go Home 52:33

2y ago52:33

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Today, April 26 2022, Farmerline announced that it has raise $6.4 million in Pre-Series A investment and an additional $6.5 million in debt. Farmerline is an AgriTech business known as "the Amazon for farmers in Africa." We recently sat down with Alloysius Attah, founder and CEO of Farmerline, to hear the remarkable story of Farmerline. Starting fr…

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Nthenya Mule of Antara Health: Making Healthcare Personal in Kenya 39:18

2y ago39:18

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Nthenya Mule is one of the founders of Antara Health, a technology company reimagining primary care to serve Kenyans both at home and in the clinic. Born and raised in Kenya, Nthenya recounts first-hand the many ways in which the healthcare system failed her family. Hoping to make a difference, she shares how she explored new healthcare offerings i…

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Ben Bellows of Nivi: Getting the Market Incentives Right 45:35

2y ago45:35

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Ben Bellows spent almost 20 years studying the economics of aid systems - but 2 years ago Ben quit his day job to go all-in on Nivi. Nivi is a chatbot marketplace Ben founded to empower, inform, and engage communities directly. Today we chat with Ben to understand what inspired someone with 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and a lifetime in the nonprof…

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Healthcare Financing for the Next Billion with Ikpeme Neto of WellaHealth (Nigeria) 50:58

2+ y ago50:58

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Ikpeme Neto is the CEO and Founder of WellaHealth in Nigeria. He's carried this healthtech startup through a major pivot from pharmacy automation to low-cost, tech-enabled health financing. In today's conversation, Ikpeme shares the many entrepreneurial experiments he ran in his early career - before he decided to scrap his entire team and start af…

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Achieving Financial Sustainability in Open Source with Yaw Anokwa of ODK 1:11:24

2+ y ago1:11:24

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In November of 2020, I sat down with Yaw Anokwa, founder and CEO of ODK, to talk about the unsustainability of open-source software in global development. Despite building a data collection platform that was used by countless organizations in every country in the world, Yaw's team struggled to find the financial resources necessary to keep ODK goin…

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Seeking Knowledge from Chaos with Tigest Tamrat of WHO 39:05

2+ y ago39:05

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When it comes to health, there are few people who are tasked with answering the Big Questions: what's actually working? Where is the evidence? And how do we get it to scale? Today we talk with Tigest Tamrat, a technical officer at the World Health Organization (WHO), whose job it is to find answers to incredibly hard, ambiguous questions. She's co-…

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Aid, Evolved: Looking Back on 2021 30:09

2+ y ago30:09

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Today I pull together some of the conversations in 2021 that really made my head spin. I clicked ‘record’ on the first episode of Aid, Evolved just over a year ago. My goal was to tell the stories of people working at the intersection of technology, poverty, and health. I've poked and prodded 28 people from many different walks of the aid sector: f…

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Walking Away from Half Your Revenue with Jon Jackson of Dimagi 44:48

2+ y ago44:48

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Jon Jackson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dimagi, a social enterprise that delivers digital solutions to improve lives in over 130 countries. In today's conversation, we chat with Jon about the influences, the people, and the ideas that took him from being an MIT grad on Wall Street to the trenches building health systems in Zambia. As we reflect on…

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David vs. Goliath with Mike Quinn of Zoona 46:53

2+ y ago46:53

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Mike Quinn was co-founder and CEO of one Africa's earliest major financial technology (FinTech) companies, Zoona. He raised over 35 million dollars of international investment for this Zambian startup - before its heartbreaking crash and Mike's exit from the company. In the conversation today, Mike shares how this Canadian engineer found himself le…

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How to Create a Shared Reality with Kevin Starr of Mulago Foundation 47:15

2+ y ago47:15

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What would you do if you had millions of dollars to invest in impact? Would you put it in an existing charity - or would you try to do something different, something better? Kevin Starr needed to answer these questions when, in 1993, he unexpectedly found himself at the head of a new foundation named Mulago. Instead of taking the path well traveled…

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Reinventing Yourself on the Journey to Scale with Sathy Rajasekharan of Jacaranda Health 34:00

2+ y ago34:00

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Sathy Rajasekharan is the co-Executive Director of Jacaranda Health. Frustrated with the speed of change within larger institutions, Sathy joined Jacaranda to be part of a small, agile, and experimental team. His mission was to lead the charge on local innovation. He joined at a pivotal time, when Jacaranda Health was transforming beyond its origin…

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In Country and Behind the Scenes with Marie Ahmed of USAID 45:28

2+ y ago45:28

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Marie Ahmed has worked within USAID to strengthen health systems in Nepal, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, and Thailand. She has a long career in the non-profit and public sector, including time with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan and over a decade with USAID, the largest contributor of foreign aid in the world. In this conversation, we recall what inspired …

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Growing 10X in a Year with Evelyn Castle of eHealth Africa 39:02

2+ y ago39:02

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Evelyn Castle is a woman who just doesn't know when to stop. She has founded multiple social ventures in the technology and health space in Africa. She is best known for her work as Executive Director and Co-Founder of eHealth Africa, a leading digital health implementer for Nigeria that was founded and run from Kano, Nigeria - and now has a growin…

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Charting Your Own Course with Erica Layer of D-Tree 49:19

3y ago49:19

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Erica Layer is the CEO of D-Tree International, a global digital health organization dedicated to ensuring everyone has access to quality primary healthcare through integration of digital tools into community health systems. In this conversation, Erica shares how she found her way into the field of digital health, for reasons that had nothing to do…

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What Stands the Test of Time with Dominic Atweam of Ghana Health Services 42:42

3y ago42:42

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After more than 15 years in Ghana Health Services, Dominic Atweam has seen all the major digital health systems in Ghana come and go. But one system withstands the test of time: DHIS2 (or "DHIMS2" as it is branded in Ghana). Dominic was a key actor in the decision by Ghana Health Services (GHS) to adopt DHIS2. In this walk through history, Dominic …

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Invest In Ecosystems, Not Apps, With Rahul Mullick And The Gates Foundation 49:53

3y ago49:53

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After rising to the top of the global consulting industry, Rahul Mullick joined the Gates Foundation to oversee some of their most ambitious work in digital and technology. Today we look back on what Rahul learned and how his investment strategy evolved in the 7 years he spent with the Gates Foundation. We discuss Rahul's ground-breaking work to ta…

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Empower Women to Code with Marlene Mhangami of the Python Software Foundation 45:57

3y ago45:57

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Marlene Mhangami is a remarkable woman. She was the first African woman to join the board of the global Python Software Foundation (PSF). PSF develops and maintains the Python programming language, one of the most popular programming languages in the world. Marlene was also chair of the first ever pan-African PyCon (Python Conference). She co-found…

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The Promise and Peril of Biometrics with Sebastian Manhart and Simprints 45:35

3y ago45:35

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Sebastian Manhart has recently concluded his role as COO of Simprints. Simprints is the world's only nonprofit biometrics company focused on the last mile. He now works as an Advisor on Digital Identity for the German Federal Chancellery, the World Bank, and ID2020. In this conversation, Sebastian reflects on the eventful six years that he spent at…

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From Serial Entrepreneur to Non-Profit Founder with Gustav Praekelt of Praekelt.org 41:52

3y ago41:52

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Gustav Praekelt is founder, chairman, and CEO of the African-based Praekelt Group. Praekelt has directly delivered essential health information to 100 million people around the world. Praekelt runs both the South African national COVID-19 hotline as well as the World Health Organization COVID-19 hotline, making it the most popular WhatsApp service …

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Foreign Aid or Local Aid? The Side Hustles of Ismaila Diene of Dimagi 46:37

3y ago46:37

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Today we dive into the life and side hustles of Ismaila Diene, a senior executive within Dimagi. Born, raised, and now returned back to Senegal, he shares his experience with the diaspora, homecoming, foreign aid, entrepeneurialism, and structural inequity. Ismaila is a member of Dimagi's global executive management team. He leads our team in West …

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