TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The round, which Maya said is the largest raised by a Bangladeshi health tech company so far, was led by early-stage fund Anchorless Bangladesh and The Osiris Group, a private equity firm focused on impact investing in Asian markets. “They’ve really seen the advantage of just having a doctor right in front of you,” she said.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

This type of documentation is often a critical step in the large-scale data analysis projects conducted by Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) in partnership with human rights organizations. I emphasized how groups can make claims that are grounded in the data and are therefore stronger against attacks by critics.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The discussion about membership of an organization and what it means to be active: lots of people would have joined a group or gone to a meeting without contributing. If you look at Amnesty’s history, 49 years ago people wrote letters to get people out of prison. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

On Friday, the Trump administration scrambled to reinstate a group of nuclear safety employees it had let go the day before, halting the firings of 350 federal employees (or those whose correct contact information it could find, anyway). His claim proved easily debunkable.

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