Thursday, January 22, 2015

Gates Foundation - Initiatives for the Future

A few last comments (for now) on the future.

The Gates Foundation annual letter is out and focuses on four developments that they both foresee and are pushing in the developing world.
1) Infant Mortality - Five simple steps to drastically improve infant mortality.
2) Africa Agricultural Productivity - Agricultural productivity by region of the world over the last 100 years is fascinating. Africa has lagged far far behind in these agricultural developments. This problem is more complex than infant mortality because best practices change according to both climate and infrastructure.
3) Mobile Banking - Discussed here previously.
4) Electronic Learning - Discussed here previously. The potential impact combined with mobile developments is interesting to note.

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