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PawaPay raises $9M seed backed by MSA, 88mph and Mr Eazi’s Zagadat Capital

TechCrunch

PawaPay handles local operations, compliance, regulatory cover and bank accounts, making it simple to receive payments in a new market. Both platforms are largely focused on addressing the unique challenges accompanying mobile money, while the others drive innovation around bank and card payments. .” Image Credits: PawaPay.

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Unlocking the power of data for wildlife conservation: An alliance between EarthRanger and Tableau Foundation

Tableau

Empowering local communities and improving quality of life. Among one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, Gorongosa National Park in the heart of central Mozambique is perhaps Africa’s greatest wildlife restoration story. Decimated by the country’s 16-year civil war, the park rebounded by balancing the needs of wildlife and people.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution. What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? What are ways of providing specific and real-time guidance for farmers? Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Unlocking the power of data for wildlife conservation: An alliance between EarthRanger and Tableau Foundation

Tableau

Empowering local communities and improving quality of life. Among one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, Gorongosa National Park in the heart of central Mozambique is perhaps Africa’s greatest wildlife restoration story. Decimated by the country’s 16-year civil war, the park rebounded by balancing the needs of wildlife and people.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. We connect the local with global resources.” The Challenge of Philanthropy to the Muslim World. Dara Westling.

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Using GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 to Apply Text-defined Data Quality Checks on Humanitarian Datasets

Towards Data Science

Limitations exist due to the maximum number of tokens allowed in prompts affecting the amount of data that can be included in data excerpts, as well as performance and cost challenges — especially if you’re a small non-profit! — at at this early stage of commercial generative AI.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

So, we have been working very hard with the City Council, and with community colleges and local labor unions and others to come up with a proposal that will start in September as an actual program called "The Green Jobs Corps." Britt: What are some of the challenges to making this happen? That is the political challenge.

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