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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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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Sometimes this material is generated in the context of providing relief services, legal aid, or other support to victims. Martus is available in seven languages , including in Dari and Farsi which are commonly spoken in Afghanistan. It is vital to the work of human rights investigations, and it serves many purposes.

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Bangladesh-based Maya, a startup focused on accessible healthcare, raises $2.2 million seed round

TechCrunch

Maya recently launched in Sri Lanka and plans to expand into India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern markets and Indonesia. Maya uses natural language processing and machine learning technology for its digital assistant, which answers basic health-related questions and decides if users need to be routed to human experts.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

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I also lived in Sri Lanka right about the time that sex tourism became a big deal, and saw it firsthand. They don't have the resources to be able to do better by their family, and you see that it goes on through generations. I spent a lot of time thinking about why these things happened to people that are just poor.

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The tier list: how Facebook decides which countries need protection

The Verge

Other countries, such as Ethiopia, may not even have the company’s community standards translated into all of its official languages. Other countries, such as Ethiopia, may not even have the company’s community standards translated into all of its official languages. Fact-checking partners don’t exist. War rooms never open.

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