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Picsart acquires R&D company DeepCraft in seven-figure deal to aid video push

TechCrunch

Founded in 2017, Armenia-based DeepCraft specialized in video and image processing and was the country’s first unicorn. Abroyan previously held positions as the Deputy Minister for the Ministry of High Tech Industry Republic of Armenia, Lead AI Architect at RedKite, and Senior Software Developer at Synopsys.

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. The main exhibition tells the history of Rwanda leading up to the genocide, what happened, and the aftermath.

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Post-conflict Reconstruction: Disarmament, Reconciliation, and Blogging?

Tech Soup

Reaching out to youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan, DOTCOM. …Will explore youth issues through the lens of media, ultimately creating their own documentaries, digital stories, short films, public service announcements, and other media for distribution internationally. Check out DOTCOM's Facebook group as well.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 23-29

Tech Soup

Kevin examines the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs' use of new media to empower youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan. In case you missed it, here's what we've had to say over the past week. From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Jim shows off a few more green gadgets from CES 2009.

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Bloggers Needed for Young Caucasus Women Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project, Young Caucasus Women, is a group blog for young women from the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). To promote citizen journalism in developing countries as an alternative to mainstream media. We need bloggers to blog on a specific topic on Sunday, hence inspiring the young women's blog entries.

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Africa Mentoring Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea for the project came from Nigerian blogger Ore Somolu who is presently working with a group of young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia on the Young Caucacus Women Project. Initially there will be a pilot project limited to Nigerian women.

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I'm a mentor for the Young Caucasus Women's Project!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm mentor for a blog project for young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia entitled YoungCaucasusWomen. Here's the project description from the site: Recruited from current FLEX. The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic.