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Internet shutdowns by governments have ‘proliferated at a truly alarming pace’

The Verge

The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded over the last decade as states seek to stifle dissent and protest by limiting citizens’ access to the web. They’re most frequently deployed during elections or times of protest, with governments claiming shutdowns are needed to stem the spread of misinformation.

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Cameroon’s Ejara raises $2M to offer crypto and investment services in Francophone Africa

TechCrunch

Overnight all our savings dwindled and the aftermath was that the government couldn’t even pay salaries,” she said to TechCrunch over a call. Ejara has more than 8,000 users from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Senegal, as well as French-speaking Africans in the diaspora (Europe, Asia and the U.S.),

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Daily Crunch: Andreessen Horowitz backs Synonym’s development of ‘fermentation farms’

TechCrunch

Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity, and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025 , reports Catherine. Legless for a while longer : We were promised legs, but now Ivan writes that it could be another year for any Meta leg-equipped avatars to appear in Horizon Worlds.

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Cameroonian crypto and savings platform Ejara raises $8M, led by Anthemis and Dragonfly

TechCrunch

While its recently launched savings product where it tokenizes government bonds is one of the ways it uses blockchain, so is its crypto product which was pivotal to the two-year-old startup raising $10 million in less than 18 months. . As a result, users on the platform have grown in multiples over the last 14 months.

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Listen to Your Data: Lessons from a Multilingual Text Message Campaign

NTEN

What's hard is finding a customer who wants to be a guinea pig as we explore new avenues of outreach. Mobile Commons serves nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups, government agencies, health care providers and businesses. It's simple to cross-reference and correlate data to see what works.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

And so I started to focus on corporate actors, and through a series of events and working at different organizaitions I was approached by RAN.

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