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4DX Ventures and Flutterwave back Francophone Africa’s CinetPay in $2.4M round

TechCrunch

.” 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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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

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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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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

Our next phase is really a massive expansion - our vision is to link over five million women within three years into one of the largest action networks for women in the world, and have a communications infrastructure that really unites the women's movement. There are a lot of things that are different from the start up phase.

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The Right Way to use Social Media for Fundraising: Wildlife Direct

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We're still in the early stages of social media as in the early days of the web and online fundraising , so, we are in the "it's hype, and not going to last" phase. Some of the new tools now being launched to create a single profile that can be used across social networks will as analysts predict make social networks like air.

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Venture studio Adanian Labs fuels startup growth in Africa

TechCrunch

Adanian Labs targets idea-phase tech startups, offering them all-round support including capital, advisory and operational backing; building them from the ground up. Compelled to offer more value to startups, the co-founders launched Adanian Labs in Kenya, joining other players, like Nailab , in the space.

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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

Tableau

Senegal’s integration of COVID-19 data into their malaria dashboards, Bilak says, represents a first phase of the country’s move toward an integrated, data-driven EOC. Tracking COVID-19 case data closely along with health facility attendance enabled Senegal to stay responsive in the face of uncertainty. “But The future of data-driven health.

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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

Tableau

Senegal’s integration of COVID-19 data into their malaria dashboards, Bilak says, represents a first phase of the country’s move toward an integrated, data-driven EOC. Tracking COVID-19 case data closely along with health facility attendance enabled Senegal to stay responsive in the face of uncertainty. “But The future of data-driven health.

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