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Infra.Market raises $20 million for its B2B marketplace in India

TechCrunch

Some of its clients are in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and Dubai. Why you have to pay attention to the Indian startup scene. The startup aims to grow this figure to $300 million by March next year. Infra.Market is also enabling small manufacturers to reach customers outside of India.

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How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movement

The Verge

With that international attention, convoy groups also began to attract scammers and counterfeits. The American media attention around the movement accelerated its lifecycle and, in the end, just turned it into another meaningless Facebook meme.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. The great news is how much attention social entrepreneurship is getting. One thing I am definitely going to do is write the book I've been kicking around for the last five years.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Our collective attention has been almost singularly focused on the pandemic and its global effects. The Rohingya crisis continued unabated, increasing the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people in Bangladesh and surrounding countries.

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Layoffs spell opportunity for some fintech startups

TechCrunch

On February 15, Lightspeed Venture Partners’ Ansaf Kareem published a very detailed blog post titled “The Alchemy of Fintech Valuations,” in which he summarizes fintech sectors, the closest public comps, the key metrics to pay attention to and where multiples are today. Check it out here.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

WHO And here’s a picture of a very happy lad, Mithu, in Bangladesh, proud of his improved pit latrine. In addition to surveying people directly and asking them to rank priorities, one can also pay attention to what people say about what’s on their minds right now. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up. There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened.

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