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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

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In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities. When students apply to the program, they are provided with a home study kit in preparation for an assessment test. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

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Within this timeline, he interned at several companies in Palo Alto, California. When he came home to Tunis, he met many students who wanted to build products like him each summer. The startup hopes that the Series A funding will drive its presence in 12 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Saudi Arabia.

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Nigeria’s Topship raises $2.5M from Flexport and YC to help merchants with international shipping

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African merchants encounter many challenges when it comes to international shipping ranging from logistics and customs to hidden and excessive charges. “The world was shutting down, but there was this high demand for stuff and demand for international shipping was going up simultaneously.

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AT&T talks driving innovation through collaboration at Disrupt

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million students and supports thousands of classrooms across the U.S. Originally from Ghana, West Africa, Martinson came to the U.S. at the age of 16 to pursue her BS in international business. Tan dedicates his work to creating engaging experiences that improve student outcomes in the K–12 space.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy.

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Win a Trip to Report for the NYT with Nicholas Kristof

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It's this belief that prompted Kristof to create his Win-a-Trip contest for graduate and undergraduate students at American universities. The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions. The student reporter will blog and vlog for nytimes.com.

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Weekly update from PND

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Opportunity International, Oikocredit invest $100 million in education. Opportunity International and Oikocredit have announced a three-year, $100 million impact investment agreement to increase access to, and quality of, education in low-income countries. November 3, 2021.

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