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How To Power 10 Million Off-Grid African Homes In 10 Years
Taking cues from the pay-as-you-go mobile phone market, Erica Mackey and Off.Grid:Electric are working to deliver clean, affordable energy to the world’s rural poor.
“The poorest people people pay the most money for the dirtiest power,” says Mackey, the 30-year-old COO. “And these people are technically the most risk averse, because anything they lose is a huge hit to them. What we do is centralize that risk. And that allows us to serve the people the national grid doesn’t find profitable.”
Find out how they plan to do it here.
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The true size of Africa.
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Union Metrics: How Funny Or Die uses analytics to improve its Tumblr presence -
Funny Or Die has been using our new Union Metrics for Tumblr to measure engagement with their hilarious Tumblr blog. We recently sat down with them to learn more about how they use analytics to understand how their content spreads on Tumblr. From posting lots of photos, to using tags…
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