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Sri Lanka’s cannabis-seekers are gathering on Facebook

The Verge

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. Sanjana didn’t hear back.

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Bangladesh-based Maya, a startup focused on accessible healthcare, raises $2.2 million seed round

TechCrunch

Maya recently launched in Sri Lanka and plans to expand into India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern markets and Indonesia. Maya uses natural language processing and machine learning technology for its digital assistant, which answers basic health-related questions and decides if users need to be routed to human experts.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Martus is available in seven languages , including in Dari and Farsi which are commonly spoken in Afghanistan. You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. My second presentation was an introduction to the Martus software.

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