The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The ruling comes a year into an ongoing civil war between Ethiopian government and rebels in the northern Tigray region of the country, which has created a humanitarian crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of people facing famine-like conditions and driven millions from their homes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A major part of Resellee’s business is grocery deliveries, including fresh produce, and it has struck partnerships with the government and farmers’ groups to meet demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pinduoduo cements position as China’s second-largest ecommerce player.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

It’s the easiest option when I’m trying to be succinct, but Southeast Asia consists of 11 countries, and obviously there are huge differences between, say, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia. I always feel a bit silly using the term “Southeast Asia” because the region is so large and complex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Provide lifesaving assistance during the natural disasters that occurred in China and Myanmar. Cool Factor : Government Goes Mobile. I see this site growing as the use of mobile increases, but it’s a great first step and a good role model for other government agencies. Cool Factor : Assists during times of emergency.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2015

This is Myanmar. In Myanmar, Tableau has worked in partnership with the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation, which supports thousands of libraries around the country. Libraries have become places in communities where the people of Myanmar learn about civil society and technology.

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TechNode

MARCH 26, 2024

EVs accounted for around 10% of car sales in Thailand last year, and the government has aimed to increase that percentage to around 30% of its annual production of 2.5 It has also signed contracts with car dealers in Laos, Myanmar, and the Philippines, Reuters reported on March 12.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. What works in Mali may not work in Myanmar. Now that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals have expired and in some ways, have succeeded surprisingly well , the UN has developed a new set of even more ambitious goals.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

This Challenge is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and all countries under sanction by the U.S. government (" U.S. This Challenge is void in the U.S. Embargo Countries "). Submission Restrictions. (a) a) In General. Limit one submission per organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. We don't take government or corporate dollars for any of our funding through grants, or anything else.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In India, news is out that a new law could ban Bitcoin (whatever that means), and this morning India forced Twitter to take down some accounts that had been critical of government policy. That’s a pretty bad look.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2020

According to a report from The Guardian , the company has removed a Facebook group with more than 1 million members after it was threatened by the Thai government for violating local laws around defaming the ruling monarch. Facebook restricted the group to avoid fines from the Thai government.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In Uganda and Myanmar. They are increasingly a vector attack, used as pathways for bad actors to get into government or foundation information technology (IT) systems. Traditional funding sources, such as government grants and philanthropic donations, are becoming increasingly unpredictable. Hungary and Iran. It needs many.

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The Verge

APRIL 1, 2021

WhatsHappeningInMyanmar — Free Expression Myanmar (@FreeExpressMm) April 1, 2021. NetBlocks, an advocacy group that tracks internet disruptions and shutdowns aimed at quashing dissent, has also confirmed the ongoing Myanmar shutdown timeline. Everyone should be making whatever plans are possible.

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2021

Facebook has reportedly upheld a ban on many organizations in Myanmar that have joined forces to resist the military coup that occurred back in February, according to Rest of World. Things have changed in Myanmar since then. Yet, according to Rest of World , the Arakan Army is still not allowed on Facebook.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar were set to return home Friday as the repatriation of thousands of such workers after a crackdown strains regional resources. Thailand has cut off electricity, internet, and gas supplies to several areas in Myanmar hosting scam centers along the border.

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Engadget

MARCH 18, 2025

Here are some of her most shocking claims: Zuckerberg requested to be gently mobbed during a visit to Asia Wynn-Williams was often tasked with organizing the meetings various Facebook executives took with heads of state and other government officials. She later concludes that when it came to Myanmar, those people just didnt matter to him.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

These components make MobileCoin more resistant to surveillance, whether it’s coming from a government or a criminal.”. Insofar as people use a product in India or Myanmar or anywhere for hate crimes or terrorism or anything else, let’s stop looking at the technology and start asking questions about the people.”.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Among the disparities: Facebook lacked misinformation classifiers in Myanmar, Pakistan, and Ethiopia, countries designated at highest risk last year. But the group’s ties to India’s nationalist government made that a delicate proposition. “We One solution could be to penalize RSS accounts.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Once hired, Wynn-Williams has to scramble to head off multiple government investigations made possible by the company's carelessness. The UN has traced Myanmar's 2017 genocide to Facebook posts which the company belatedly took down.) She preps Zuckerberg for meetings with foreign leaders, which he hates. Back in the U.S.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2010

We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar. The terrorists bent on destroying our way of life know only how to hate; they have not learned to love.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Governing. ? Non-governmental organizations say American companies pay as much attention to similar situations unfolding in India, Brazil, and Myanmar, among other places. The move comes as ByteDance comes under increasing scrutiny in the United States over how the Chinese government may be accessing Americans’ user data.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Stamos arrived at Facebook in September 2015 following a high-profile stint at Yahoo, where he discovered a vulnerability in Yahoo mail that allowed the US government to monitor the messages of Yahoo Mail users. government, had previously known. There were actually two separate Russian campaigns on Facebook during the 2016 election.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

It's called out Apple for allegedly blocking Proton VPN security updates after the United Nations recommended that people in Myanmar use Proton Mail to report crimes during the country's 2021 coup. It's raised money for privacy activists in Hong Kong. To date, all orders have been denied. Anyone can read the report without needing an account.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It threatens to disrupt the carefully brokered pact, which could also be blocked by the Chinese government. Governing. ? Facebook’s slow response to the threat of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar is the textbook example. As COVID-19 cases surge in France, the government is looking to resurrect its failed contact tracing app.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Governing. ? Brent Kendall at The Wall Street Journal has the story: Dozens of government antitrust lawyers are on teams investigating whether the search giant has used its dominance to stifle competition. user data to the Chinese government, nor would it do so if asked.” Mark Mazzetti and Nicholas Fandos / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The group has been linked to more than a dozen violent incidents over the last year, including a train hijacking ; last month, a QAnon supporter rammed a car into a government residence in Canada. Governing. ? was arrested on May 1 with dozens of knives in her car. So this feels like useful context to share.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Governing. ? Trump has made it clear he expects the US government to be “well compensated” if a TikTok sale goes through. Facebook rolled out a series of changes ahead of the election in Myanmar on November 8th. The company recently posted two job listings for the roles, but deleted them late Tuesday after media attention.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Republicans who recently warned of a “government takeover of the internet” are now staging one in reverse — trying to turn the internet into the government. As the largest global community, Facebook can explore examples of how community governance might work at scale. That sounds a lot like something a government would say!

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

What Pape was seeing in these results did not fit the government model of lone wolves and small groups of extremists. On one hand, platforms have regularly been found to be complicit in spreading hate speech that leads to real-world violence, most famously in Myanmar and India. This is collective political violence.”.

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