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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Justin has an MBA from the University of Colorado and has worked a variety of jobs ranging from organic farming, to starting a human rights nonprofit in Congo, to launching an artisan roasted-nut company in Colorado. He is passionate about helping nonprofits use a data-driven, efficient approach to online marketing.

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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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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Native to South Sudan and a handful of other African countries, including Congo, Central African Republic, and Uganda, excelsa is also farmed in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Excelsa could play a key role in adapting.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Justin has an MBA from the University of Colorado and has worked a variety of jobs ranging from organic farming, to starting a human rights nonprofit in Congo, to launching an artisan roasted-nut company in Colorado. He is passionate about helping nonprofits use a data-driven, efficient approach to online marketing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

April 8 Watch the HBO special, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. April 6 Host a fundraiser house party for your favorite human rights organization with a viewing of Hotel Rwanda in memory of the Rwandan genocide's anniversary. April 9 Attend a protest along the Olympic Torch relay route in San Francisco.

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

In addition to working a variety of jobs ranging from picking organic peas to writing a book on using military networks, Justin has a passion for international development and indigenous rights from studies in Brazil and South Africa where he helped start a human rights nonprofit for Pygmies in Congo.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Roger shared a little of his philosophy, the basis of his session at the 2009 NTC , " Better Online Storytelling ", upon his return from a trip to the Congo. . Compelling messages that make the work of Mercy Corps seem more real than any list of figures. I couldn't agree more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

It's called Why Congo Matters. I think it is really cool that Tharum, a Cambodian Blogger, is mentoring a Danish blogger launching a climate change blog! Emily Troutman has just launched a new online art/journalism project with a social conscious. The Year That Changed the World from Michael Meyer was just published.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

After you look at the sobering visualization of incidents in the Congo (DRC), you may need another dose of puppies. Economy got you down? You need the live puppy cam ! Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. Wired stakeholders. IBM's going to bring broadband to rural areas over power lines. NTEN Member Beth J.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. We have come a long way! Anyone with a desire to enact change, empower women and girls, and help battle oppression is invited to share their voice and join us.

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Tableau

APRIL 7, 2022

You can see this in places like the Republic of Congo, where the people from the Baaka ethnic group work with companies to meet the region’s timber needs while protecting their ancestral forest home. Indigenous peoples are 5% of the global population , yet they manage 25% of the world’s land.

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Tableau

APRIL 7, 2022

You can see this in places like the Republic of Congo, where the people from the Baaka ethnic group work with companies to meet the region’s timber needs while protecting their ancestral forest home. Indigenous peoples are 5% of the global population , yet they manage 25% of the world’s land.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

However, leading seed deals in Float and Union54 and participating in Jambo’s, a Congo-based crypto startup, shows Tiger Global is willing to go lower and pick winners early. That is why they saw an opportunity in the likes of Flutterwave, and they came in at the best time.”.

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Global Giving

MARCH 26, 2019

He kept probing and soon discovered a system of forced labor in the Belgian Congo that would become one of history’s notorious humanitarian crises. By focusing on the information that should’ve been there, but wasn’t, Morel exposed a dark truth that may have never been revealed to the public eye.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. That's the story of Women for Women. Why would my mother betray me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

He said he would more focus on the "death and destruction" in northern Uganda and Eastern Congo. He talked about Iraq, and said it was important, but there is enough media coverage of it all ready, and he feels nothing could be done in the short term.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. On Friday, I was on a "Darfur Activist" conference call produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND and the Save Darfur Coalition.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. The museum display included information about the issue, a countdown clock to the government's decision, and a running tally of postcards submitted to date.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia. He was coming back to his village, and he found that his village was in flames. It had been bombed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold. Hopefully, the situation in the Congo resolves itself and doesn't cross the border into Rwanda, as it did in the '90s.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Need some inspiration? Here’s a couple examples pulled from recent CauseVox campaigns. Source: Neverthirst, Workout For Water).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It's also a nice "put your money where your mouth is," not wholy unlike that at the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest, where you choose which gorilla advocacy group your admission fee will support. Free Rice applies a simple, powerful consequence to scoring.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Then, the magazine is like a curation of all the best that's out there on our newswire, on our pipeline of content.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

For example, the Holocaust Museum has a great Flash exhibition of Angelina Jolie’s trip to the Congo. Flash experiences also frequently require single starting points and can create nested walled gardens within the walls of your site. It has all kinds of audio and imagery to explore with a star at the helm.

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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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