Digital Trends

MAY 27, 2022

The anger over Nintendo Switch Online additions Pinball, Congo's Caper, and Rival Turf is misguided.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Though many of the countries we work in are talked about in the news (DR Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan), some aren’t as well-known (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Nigeria) and we often need to explain why operating in these countries is important.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 million in seed funding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

An example was the opportunity to feature a video about the lack of treatment available for those living with HIV in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on YouTube’s homepage. Some questions we tackle with include: What happens when our content is taken out of context or context is simply ignored?

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2010

Come Clean for Congo. YouTube Nonprofit Resources: . YouTube Direct . YouTube Video Volunteers. How to use YouTube Annotation . Ramya on Twitter: @ramchopps. Examples from this session: Stillerstrong. Invisible Children. Choose a Different Ending . That's Not Cool. Other Nonprofit Video Resources: Lights, Camera, Help.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2010

Come Clean for Congo. YouTube Nonprofit Resources: . YouTube Direct . YouTube Video Volunteers. How to use YouTube Annotation . Ramya on Twitter: @ramchopps. Examples from this session: Stillerstrong. Invisible Children. Choose a Different Ending . That's Not Cool. Other Nonprofit Video Resources: Lights, Camera, Help.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Riddle me this: Why has Botswana, a landlocked country in the south of Africa, become one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations — Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone among them — remain caught in a miasma of violence and poverty? You might chalk it… This story continues at The Next Web.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

First, the service will be available in seven African countries, starting with Ivory Coast where it’s already live, Senegal in January, Cameroon in February, Burkina Faso in March, Tunisia in April, Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo after that. Molotov is betting on local partnerships to launch its service in new countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, a search for “ fallingwhistles ” (either in the Instagram app or on a 3rd party web viewer such as Statigram or Webstagram) user photos with the tag — typically featuring “whistleblowers” wearing the whistles sold by the nonprofit to raise funds for its campaign for peace in Congo .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

After that, Twiga will look at other markets — Cote d’Ivoire, DRC Congo, Ghana and Nigeria. Hitting these targets would set Twiga up for a bigger fundraise sometime next year, according to Njonjo. Njonjo adds that Twiga’s expansion into Nigeria might involve some M&A action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (July 23, 2011) 12.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

It has also been called the “blood diamond of batteries” because it’s been mined in a way that’s endangered child workers and wrecked the environment in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mercedes says the battery management system is also configured specifically for AMG.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Other countries with a presence include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Tanzania and Senegal. One way it wants to carry this out will be to take its pan-African expansion seriously even though a large part of its 450 clients are based in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

.” The Ivorian startup acts as an online and point-of-sale payment solution for merchants to process payment from more than 130 different payment operators — mobile-money, bank cards, wallets — in nine French-speaking African countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Congo, Guinea and Benin.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Baobab+ has operations in Mali, Senegal, Madagascar and Côte d’Ivoire, and is planning to enter Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo markets. Yellow, which has operations in Malawi and Uganda and allows households and small businesses to pay for solar systems through installments, received $4 million, while Baobab+ got $2.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

These blogs raised $350,000 to pay rangers salaries and help save mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park. Says Paula, “Two years later, have over 70 blogs , donations have risen 4 fold, as has website visitation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

These are markets where it has distributors or dealers; 13 of them are in sub-Saharan Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The head of our group, Patrick Ball, is spending most of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with the United Nations on a range of human rights issues (of which the DRC has many). Men being trained to use Martus to enter testimonies.Our human rights team is active all over the world.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

.” “This is no ordinary real estate project; it’s an effort to create an epicenter of culture, innovation, and thought-leadership.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 23, 2005

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum recently launched an online exhibit, Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through the Eastern Congo. The exhibit describes the devastation occurring in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Tableau

JUNE 13, 2021

Similarly, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, PATH is working with the in-country EOC and partners at Bluesquare to build a Tableau dashboard to track 22 different diseases. The future of data-driven health.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Here’s a quick round-up of the six startups that have made the cut for this year’s program: Project Canopy : A not-for-profit that’s aiming to become “the data broker for the Congo Basin Rainforest” — a forested area that spans 2.5 Joining Subak is really our watershed moment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Swoop has been providing transport and delivery of medical materials — medications as well as things like samples for labs — in south Malawi, DR Congo and other locations for the last three years, and recently delivered its millionth item and completed its 20,000th flight. This success has led to USAID awarding $1.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The company will use the Series A financing to expand into more Francophone African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal and Ivory Coast. Three years in, Gozem is now 250-staff strong in its four markets. Where we operate on the continent is kind of what some might call second-tier African markets.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

” Chandler said deforestation in the Amazon has far-reaching impacts across South America, just as it does in the Congo Basin and other major biodiverse regions worldwide. “We know that has an impact on rainfall, on food systems, on soil integrity in other countries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). She signed up to sponsor two women after seeing a 60 Minutes segment on rape in Congo , where Women for Women was featured.

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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

MAY 30, 2022

The Nigeria-based startup plans to provide these services beyond its current three markets by expanding to Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon by the end of this year, after closing $2.5 It also works with logistics partners to ensure the delivery of goods within 24 hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional. That donors in an age of social media, will come to your organization with the expectation of being full partners in your work, not just an ATM machine to be tapped when cash is needed. .

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Forum One

JANUARY 21, 2009

Combating Malaria: A First-Hand Account From Congo. Some past topics include: Caesarean Deliveries: Why Are They Key for Maternal Health in Developing Countries? Environmental Change: What Are the Links With Migration? Managing Unauthorized Migration. PRB is running these online conversations using Forum One's Live! Interviews Online service.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It has also been called the “blood diamond of batteries” because it’s been mined in a way that’s endangered child workers and wrecked the environment in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mercedes says the AMG EQE will go on sale in the US in early 2023.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Keep a gratitude journal, or make monthly gratitude collages Participate in a fundraising walk for a cause I care about, like Women for Women International's Run for Congo Women. Join a read-a-thon, or blog-a-thon for a cause I care about (anyone know of one?).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

The expected growth will largely be fueled by increasing partnerships and product lines, and the aggressive expansion plans it embarked on this year when it entered Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after acquiring Bluewave.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo. The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions. Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

One example of the incredible change that education can bring to a community is Malaika , a grassroots nonprofit that educates and empowers girls and communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo through a school, a community center, a clean water program, technical classes and and organic farm.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

Roger told us about his job as a writer for Mercy Corps , where he's traveled to places like the Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and most recently Haiti, writing about the man-made and natural disasters that have struck those places and the accompanying relief efforts.

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