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Southeast Asia insurtech Igloo increases its Series B to $46M

TechCrunch

Igloo currently works with 20 global, regional and local insurers across Southeast Asia. It now offers 15 products, including policies for gig workers, gamers, cars and farmers in Vietnam, and says it has facilitated more than 300 million policies and increased gross written premiums by 30 times since 2019.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Kenya’s Wapi Pay raises $2.2M pre-seed for cross-border payments between Africa and Asia

TechCrunch

There’s much talk around sending money from Africa to the West, which has led to many startups using traditional (fiat) and nontraditional (crypto) means to facilitate cross-border payments between the two corridors. In Q1 2020, people spent an average of 8.9% to send money to the region, much higher than the global average of 6.8%.

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What I Learned About Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Social Impact at IFCAsia in Bangkok

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you teach internationally, it is important to localize your content and Tharum was able to provide many local and regional examples and tips. The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

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While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development. To watch these women come together, and get to meet their sisters, and colleagues, was so dynamic.