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Off-grid, on message

Off-grid business models: From pay-as-you-go to art projects and aspirations to become the Amazon of Africa, off-grid developers are innovating as fast in the area of business models as they are with technology. pv magazine speaks with the innovators and identifies some of the strategies that are electrifying the African continent.

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Ian Clover

05 Oct 2015

It took Joseph Stalin to accurately find the words to describe one of humankind’s more baffling traits: “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” More recently, it took the heartbreaking picture of three-year-old Kurdish refugee Alan Kurdi – washed up dead on a Turkish beach while fleeing …

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