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Flutterwave and PayPal collaborate to allow African merchants to accept and make payments

TechCrunch

That might be a thing of the past for some businesses as African payments company Flutterwave today is announcing a collaboration with PayPal to allow PayPal customers globally to pay African merchants through its ‘Pay with PayPal’ feature. ” A PayPal spokesperson confirmed the Flutterwave collaboration with TechCrunch.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The documentation projects of our partners in Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have yielded so far six high-quality publications or reports about violations against LGBTI individuals in their communities.

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

Charity:water’s latest campaign for 2014 is focused around donating to the people of Malawi, Africa. Both winemaker and entrepreneur, in this case, exits each collaboration with a deeper connection to economic and personal development. A video released on December 23 garnered 4K YouTube views in just three hours.

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Cleantech Qotto embarks on growth plan backed by $8M funding

TechCrunch

The planned financial services include micro-insurance, micro-credit and micro-savings products, designed in collaboration with partners such as SUNU, a large insurer in West Africa. Qotto said it has already sold thousands of life insurance contracts.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. webinar in collaboration with Candid on Thursday, Nov. Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia. 18 at 2 p.m.

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Vote Now: Ten Sessions We Want to See at NTC

Care2

Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate With Your Community - You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. We’ll hear from nonprofits that have used concrete project-based fundraising to build libraries in India, heat the homes of Native Americans in South Dakota and even send 5,000 girls to school in Malawi.

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