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

TechCrunch

So it stayed on my mind.” ” In 2015, she got acquainted with blockchain and thought it was the perfect technology to solve the problems she faced while growing up. . “So even at that tender age, I asked myself how we managed to do everything right and still end up in that zone.

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Crisis Lessons Learned When My Apartment Building Was on Fire

Care2

Keep in mind that you may need to bring in some outside firemen or other professionals of your own. When people can’t reach you to address the problem, you can bet they are going to talk about the issue wherever they can, likely on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, you name it. Firemen and Ladder. False Alarms are Dangerous.

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. We won't go down the looming problem of the lack of physicians our nation will be facing in the upcoming decades, but instead let's look at museum work. Ask and you shall receive. Be careful what you wish for.

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How to Predict What You’ll Raise by Year-End

NonProfit Hub

With the end in mind. For an animal rescue, how many dogs/cats/guinea pigs do you want to save? The problem is that so many Fundraisers are so focused on the money that they forget about the relationship. That’s where the problem starts. Problem solved. Start here. Where do all good things start? Be a friend.

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Be Prepared to Deliver Digital Value

.orgSource

Some leaders prefer to hang back and let others be the guinea pigs. In their mind the association is moving out of their control.” We don’t invest in potential, we invest in known solutions to help with our members’ critical problems,” Tom advises. Modernizing processes solves many customer service problems.”

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

TechCrunch

Sugar came into the human diet roughly 10,000 years ago as sugarcane, which is native to New Guinea and parts of Taiwan and China. The horrors of slavery may be the most damning legacy of industrial sugar, but it’s far from the only problem caused by the human craving for sweeteners. The bitter history of the sweetest ingredient.

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Heat Listed

The Verge

Another problem — exacerbated when forecasting programs do not disclose their sources of data — is that of “dirty data” being mixed with more straightforward crime reports: a 2019 study out of New York University’s AI Now Institute identified jurisdictions where inaccurate or falsified records were directly fed into the data.

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