TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Talk360’s payment platform will integrate “all payment options” in the continent — creating a diverse pool of localized payment options, making it easy for international and local businesses to sell to buyers residing in Africa. South Africa’s Talk360 raises $4M to build single payment platform for Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Shawn Ahmed sent us a video from Bangladesh with his reflections on how nonprofits can work with Free Agents. Please take five minutes to watch the video – it’s excellent. He made a great point that social media expertise isn’t the only thing that free agents bring to a partnership with an NGO.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

How Bongo, the ‘Netflix of Bangladesh,’ won the local video streaming market with just $10M. “They are already growing and doubling each year with phenomenal SaaS metrics because they are helping content providers to connect to any audience.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

. #4 Think global, write local Don’t forget op-eds and letters to the editor! While topics might be global, news is local,” explained Chan. Write an op-ed that talks about the issue from the local context.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It currently covers some 20 countries for receiving money, some of the very poorest and/or least developed places in the world including Bangladesh, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Zambia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Specifically, these are Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines in Southeast Asia (though Sosrodjojo said SIV II will also look at other countries); Pakistan and Bangladesh in South Asia; Egypt in MENA; and Mexico in Latin America. Another criteria is to back local founders. SIV II plans to follow on 25% of its portfolio.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Across the globe there are many recent and well-known cases of social entrepreneurship that follow this pattern of independent sector or civil society working with government, such as Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen family of ventures and Fazle Abed’s BRAC in Bangladesh. The Early Bird deadline ends tonight! Click here to register to attend!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some examples of how Thunes’ software and APIs are used include connecting Paypal and Paypal Xoom payouts with top mobile wallets in Asia and Africa, including in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Kenya and facilitating payments for digital remittance companies like Remitly, World Remit and Moneygram.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. It first works with local community people to see what its children need and then tailors programs that are specific to that locale.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. Our local paper, the San Jose Mercury News, did two great pieces on Benetech, a business section feature story and an exceptional column by Mike Cassidy entitled An Executive Does Well By Helping Others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

He chronicled his story and work in Bangladesh using social media tools and engaging story telling techniques.    Have a meet up in your area like they did in Birmingham, UK     With some advanced planning, some social media local communities are coming together to take collective on Blog Action Day.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

The victims of Cyclone Sidr in the southwestern region of Bangladesh have immediate needs for relief items, including food and non-food items, emergency shelter, basic health care, clean water and more. I thought I'd highlight a few charitable organizations that are working to end hunger and some opportunities for donations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

There, she was responsible for the Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh markets, plus the primary verticals of SaaS, B2B marketplaces, proptech, edtech, commerce and consumer internet. Sellers who opt to sell their home on the market will be paired with a local Zillow Premier Agent partner.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh. Oh yeah, and he used to organize a CROP walk almost every year in our town to raise money for local hunger agencies. As Thanksgiving approaches, I have a lot to be thankful for: my family, my friends, my work, my home and my health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water explains clearly on their homepage the three things that make them different from other nonprofits: their 100% model, their emphasis on proving where donations go with GPS tracking and their collaborations with local partners in the countries to which they bring clean water. How can your organization apply this?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. What are ways of helping farmers get more money from their work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

WHO And here’s a picture of a very happy lad, Mithu, in Bangladesh, proud of his improved pit latrine. The engagement got a lot of responses and WHO retweeted many of the pictures with the intent to fostered an understanding of what not having a toilet means. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

Anna: "Grub" is our word for food that's local, that's sustainable, and that's grown with fairness from all along the way, from the seed to the table. So "grub" became our kind of catchall term for those three things, for kind of the values of local, of sustainable, and of fairness.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

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. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

This pipeline — from physical protest to social media to establishment outlets — is what has helped the convoy evolve from a local standoff into a televised event that can raise millions from supporters thousands of miles away. Fox News has an interesting way of filtering very local events through the prism of its own culture wars”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

.” Speaking of which, investor Packy McKormick, founder of Not Boring Capital, describes Pluto as “a rare combination of top-tier global talent with deep local knowledge working on a problem whose time has come.” Pluto is starting the same way.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

We connect the local with global resources.” The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. The Challenge of Philanthropy to the Muslim World.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. They are doing something that I like very much, which is to start seeding local and regional funds so that grassroots women can help each other locally.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

They created dashboards to analyze network activity and alerted local election officials to any problems. In the past months, we’ve been asked to firefight for India election, violent clashes in Bangladesh, and protests in Pakistan.”. Brazil, India, and the United States were placed in “tier zero,” the highest priority.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

July 25, 2023 ChatGPT for Android is now available in the US, India, Bangladesh and Brazil A few days after putting up a preorder page on Google Play, OpenAI has flipped the switch and released ChatGPT for Android. based company to stop processing locals’ data. The app is now live in a handful of countries.

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