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. Sanjana didn’t hear back.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 20, 2021
” The founders have arrived at their understanding of the market based on a long history in the field, having previously founded GiveDirectly (for charitable cross-border transfers) and Segovia (focused on B2B transfers). You need to have the utmost trust to take that money and send to someone else.”
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Maya recently launched in Sri Lanka and plans to expand into India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern markets and Indonesia. “For people with chronic conditions, it’s easier because they don’t have to go somewhere every week, and the fact they have monitoring and their history gathered is helpful for regular users, too.”
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 19, 2009
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. The location was chosen by the conference organizers so that the participants could observe and learn from Cambodia’s own history of recovering from the Khmer Rouge period.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
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. Thinking about the right to communicate opens up many interesting issues. Is there any indication that Amnesty is doing better now with technology?
Fast Company Tech
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Most recently, on Sunday, he declared, This might be the biggest fraud in history, when tweeting about a perceived discrepancy in Social Security records. His claim proved easily debunkable.
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