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Record Revenue, Double Digit Hike For GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

This year Benin, Bolivia, Denmark, Panama, and Sri Lanka launched national GivingTuesday movements, and GivingTuesday launched its Europe Hub, which joins the Africa, India, Latin America & the Caribbean, and U.S. & Arts and culture might have done particularly well. “We Participants who volunteered in the U.S.

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Sri Lanka’s cannabis-seekers are gathering on Facebook

The Verge

Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka. Sanjana didn’t hear back.

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Tiger Global, Blume back Indian startup bringing safety — and intelligence — to EVs

TechCrunch

The geography is diverse, the use cases of how people use electric vehicles are two-wheelers, kind of in terms of culture in terms of behavior, in terms of geography, all of it was different,” Asati said. Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

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5 Ways to Gain The Upper Hand in Facebook’s Newsfeed

Connection Cafe

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. But no algorithm is perfect. So they test and tweak. Users in these countries can only see Page posts that their friends comment on or share.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. Changes come through people and culture and not through technology. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out. Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian.

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The silent strain tourism disproportionately has on women

Fast Company Tech

Similarly, theres Amba Yaalu at Kandalama, Sri Lankas first hotel run entirely by women. Tourism practices can amplify this issue by commodifying local cultures and appropriating womens traditional roles or attire for photo opportunities, such as the Geishas in Japan. Think flight attendants, nightclub promoters, and dancers.