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What Is Volunteerism? A Guide to the History & Benefits

Bloomerang

Many people all over the world face different challenges and problems. These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. This is why volunteerism has played such a major role throughout history.

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How Just Stop Oil harnessed emotions to ignite public concern for climate change

Fast Company Tech

The alternative, an apathetic consensus, would entail passively accepting the dominant approach to address the climate crisis. But history shows that disruptive tactics have long played a role in forcing attention to urgent issues. A frequent refrain is that the objectives are valid, but the strategies are too extreme.

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Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

Jeff ’s loan brokerage platform was created to make it easier for financial service providers to integrate alternative data scoring, allowing them reach more potential borrowers. ” While some lending companies have developed pilot projects for alternative data scoring, the process is often time-consuming, complicated and expensive.

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Only 2% of tech jobs are held by Black women. Cristina Mancini knows thats unacceptable.

Mashable Tech

With Black History Month upon us, and a very different industry environment than a year ago, Mashable caught up with Mancini to discuss the latest with her organization and how she stays optimistic during this strange time. That being said, addressing the gaps in representation isn’t a technology problem, it’s a human problem.

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Automated hiring software is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable job candidates

The Verge

It’s contributing to the problem of “hidden workers” — individuals who are able and willing to work, but remain locked out of jobs by structural problems in the labor market. Despite this, companies seem well aware of these problems.

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The 2020s promise better tech solutions to humanity’s biggest problems

TechCrunch

While humanity’s problems have never been greater, our tools have never been better. It was quite possibly the most extensive greenfield opportunity in the history of technology. No-code tools solve some of these problems, but what we need is a whole revolution in our data tools. Subscribe here. What are we missing?

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Facebook is making it easier to bulk-delete your embarrassing old posts

The Verge

Alternatively, a post can be archived, which means it’s no longer public but can still be viewed privately. However, the company has yet to provide an official bulk-delete tool, which has proven to be a problem when old tweets have been dug up in an attempt to discredit or otherwise cause trouble for people.

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