TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

O ther players in the space facilitating transfer from the U.K. to Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana. The chief executive also said NALA, currently present in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana and South Africa, plans to be live in 12 African countries by the end of the year, including Nigeria. and the E.U.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. The company will roll out the service to users in Ghana, South Africa and Kenya before the end of the year. This year, the company began to make strides outside the continent. In May, it expanded to the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. While global investors have previously invested in African startups, their activity seemed more prominent in 2021, probably because of their participation across the board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. — to facilitate peer-to-peer money movement from the U.S. Economic headwinds have hit the global fintech space hard. The company began making strides outside the continent last year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The fintech’s new growth strategy follows its plan to power its embedded finance offering beyond its current markets, including Uganda and Ghana, to bridge the financing gap affecting millions of micro, small medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across these markets. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

blog is to facilitate networking, collaboration & the sharing of information and ideas about global and local issues. Check out her global mosaics gallery. The photo above is from Ghana. T he main purpose of the blog, according to the "about" page, is: The purpose of the OneWorld U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We might not wait long as Okra is currently in beta in Kenya and South Africa, and Mono is planning an expansion into Ghana and Kenya before the end of the year. “Spending a lot of time in San Francisco when working with Smile has helped us to get in touch with these globally world-class founders and investors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

When Vendease launched in January 2020, it wanted to solve the challenges and inefficiencies in Nigeria’s highly fragmented food sector using a marketplace model that connected suppliers and farms to restaurants and food businesses, with deliveries facilitated within 24 hours. And that’s what keeps us going.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Kuda claims to have up to 5 million users, more than thrice the number it had last August during its $55 million Series B round , money it raised to enter into other African countries like Ghana and Uganda this year. a move the company says is part of a major global expansion drive. . From an administrative point of view, Kuda’s U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The plan for Mono is to be a global company and getting into YC provides the perfect opportunity to do so. The company is also planning an imminent pan-African expansion to Ghana and Kenya, and from all indication, Mono might execute one if not the two before the end of Q1.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

However, with global sea levels still rising rapidly , biodiversity declining at an alarming rate , and the world’s most vulnerable populations bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, it is clear that the efforts of dedicated environmental nonprofits alone are not enough. From nonprofits like 350.org With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At the time, most fintechs and banks did not recognize the need for using bank payments to facilitate online transactions. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. On a call with TechCrunch, Pays said that before Ozow, manual EFT processes were the popular options to carry out transactions online.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Telcos and banks dominate this mass market, providing the tech infrastructure that facilitates these code-based transactions. Mobile money is more used in Kenya than anywhere else globally. Stax describes itself as a remote team with employees working from the U.S., Nigeria and Kenya. The platform came out of beta last May.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. PersonallyI see a huge potential for web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

So, while at BlogHer 07 I had a little bit of a personal learning mission: What can I learn about mobile video blogging in a global context? The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Ghana’s Float initially launched as Brex for Africa but later pivoted to offering the same credit features with more emphasis on software and less on cards; Boya, on the other hand, plans to execute on both fronts using overdrafts. Unlike the U.S. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2019. Team size : 30 . Location : Lagos, Nigeria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. It was a bit tough catching up on the acronyms but the Global Impact Investing Network (GINN) has taken up a chunk of the work. The social capital market is the arena that allows investors to "do well by doing good."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

" Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources. Global NpTech. GINKs is a knowledge network promoting the use of ICTs in development in Ghana. See 1,010 Favorite Tools on the TechSoup Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are many Robinhood-esque platforms globally because of a growing need to invest in U.S. million to facilitate it, the investment firm is announcing that it has raised $15 million in a new financing round. million to facilitate it, the investment firm is announcing that it has raised $15 million in a new financing round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

This allows international merchants to scale into Africa seamlessly through our technology and, in turn, allows African consumers to access global goods and services frictionlessly. of women are funded globally. Given these biases, do you think more women would get investments if there were more women investors? Today, only 2.8%

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

We championed the importance of cross-cultural considerations in AI — in particular, cultural differences in user attitudes towards AI and mechanisms for accountability — and built data and techniques that enable culturally-situated evaluations , with a focus on the global south.

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