Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. Nairobi, Kenya. I’m so excited about these new groups! Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.). Lomé, Togo. Two Net Tuesdays of Note.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We’ve built an extensive distribution channel covering almost half of the high schools in Kenya, and that means we have an opportunity to solve other tech needs that schools have,” said Nyangolo. “We And the platforms for producing these report forms were offline computer-based platforms. Image Credits: Zeraki.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Most of these businesses operated offline until a few years ago when startups brought about digitization by providing infrastructure and a gamut of e-commerce and financial services. Sabi is an attempt at platforming the informal sector and African trade via various online and offline channels.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The company plans to use the investment to expand within its home market Nigeria — where it operates in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja — and outside to Ghana and Kenya. The 45-man team has hired Aaron Tindiseega to lead its expansion into Kenya and the eastern Africa region.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

These applications came from 19 countries (including 14 African countries) and Yusuf said the company received the most entries from Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana. . 10,000, almost ~$20) to participate in AltSchool’s software engineering program, which starts in April. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With limited access to technology, these restaurants typically resort to using offline methods, including pen and paper, for things like manual reconciliation and inventory management. “We’re seeing fast-paced growth in Nigeria and Kenya with a retention rate of above 95%,” Futi added. . The two-year-old startup raised $1.1

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

and Kenya round up the top three countries where Super Sema is most watched. In addition to being on YouTube Originals, Super Sema also airs on major linear TV networks in Africa, like Citizen TV in Kenya and SABC in South Africa. However, an upcoming version might see Kukua take Super Sema to the metaverse.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The startup has expanded beyond Nigeria and claims that merchants from the West African country, as well as Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Rwanda, can use its platform to move freight in and out of their countries. And also, we see a huge potential in the offline market. Our strategy in capturing offline markets is also key.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While Delila Kidanu grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, mobile money platform M-Pesa was the go-to fintech platform for her and most Kenyans. Apart from being offline models, savings with microfinance banks, cooperatives and informal saving groups have manual, expensive and opaque processes. Image Credits: Koa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Innovations around mobile money and digital payments have allowed for the processing of payments online and offline through USSD or STK commands, over apps or using NFC technology. Across the region (especially in Kenya) M-Pesa has served as an anchor for a raft of new services that are coming online.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2019, the Naspers-owned online marketplace sold its assets in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to the seven-year-old classifieds player. Furthermore, cars45 will merge its operations in Nigeria (primary market), Ghana and Kenya with Jiji as the classifieds marketplace wants to consolidate its position in the space.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After leaving the Stripe-owned company in 2019, he launched a data startup called Voyance where Singh, who had already exited one of his products — Transferpay.ng , an offline payments startup — was a software engineer. The plan for Mono is to be a global company and getting into YC provides the perfect opportunity to do so.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

While big restaurants and restaurant chains are often capable of setting their management systems or using well-known point-of-sale providers, thousands of smaller restaurants in Africa rely on offline methods such as pen and paper to produce receipts and make reconciliations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

AMC BV is an Airtel Africa subsidiary and the holding company for several of Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations across 14 African countries, including Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. AMC BV benefits from a strong offline presence of kiosks, mini shops and agents which tie with its core telecom business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Kenyan consumer experience platform for businesses in Africa, Ajua today announced that it has acquired WayaWaya , a Kenya-based AI and ML messaging and payments company. WayaWaya’s customers and partners include the likes of I&M Bank, Interswitch and MTN.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The startup hopes that the Series A funding will drive its presence in 12 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Saudi Arabia. They operate online-only or hybrid models (a combination of offline and online settings). It also plans to deepen its presence in the countries already present, especially Egypt and Nigeria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Right before Thanksgiving, I was in London on my way back from Kenya. In 2006, the annual donation was a stretch for us … so we asked family, friends, and colleagues to donate to the Sharing Foundation in lieu of holiday or birthday gifts. I love all of you!&#. London Event at Just Giving.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Adelaide, Australia: Mixing online with offline - building communities that take action. Busia, Kenya: Blue Bells Orphans And Vulnerable Support Program /Kenya. With 44 events planned (so far) for the month, there’s probably an event near you! Tuesday, September 17. Washington, DC: Web Trends: Wordpress & Beyond.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Typically the options are manual, which means an agent confirming the address offline or inefficient digital methods such as using utility bills. As pointed out earlier, banks and fintechs need to verify customers’ addresses to properly onboard them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The company uses 180 field sales agents to onboard schools and individual users across Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya and Ghana , the countries receiving the most marketing attention from uLesson. In August, uLesson introduced offline centers. African edtech startup uLesson lands a $7.5 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Since the start of this year, Jambo has already signed up over 12,000 students across 15 countries (Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Madagascar and South Africa) to take a curated web3 curriculum, both online and offline.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

“But you have to understand the problem of loan apps compared to other apps basically is what we call ‘offline bad,’ which means the all the various [violations are] happening outside of the app, they’re not happening on the app.” Experts believe that it is due to lax regulation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. The success of mpesa in combination with the arrival of broadband there has stimulated the billion dollar ‘silicon savanah’ movement in Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Last month, the Twitter community came together online and offline in over 180 cities around the world to raise money for charity:water with the highly successful " Twestival " fundraising event which brought in over $250,000. Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo helps connects people with issues and organizations on the first rung of the ladder of engagement, but the challenge will be how to cultivate relationships to bring people up that ladder to higher levels of engagement and involvement – from following and connecting to making donations to making change offline.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 19, 2024

But GivenGain also tracks offline donations made directly to individual nonprofits through checks, wire transfers, donor-advised funds and corporate matching gifts, among other vehicles. There might have been fewer donations, but the amounts were larger.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. We interact with our friends and colleagues in real time on and offline -- either in the office or out at coffee, on Twitter or social networks. More and more, now we can.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Location : Nairobi, Kenya. Location : Nairobi, Kenya. ” Founders : CEO Anthony Wagacha, George Mbuthia and Lione Alushula have combined experience at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, KPMG, Microsoft and Central Bank of Kenya. What it says it does : Vendy enables offline payments in Africa. . Website : [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

They offer $100-$150 start-up grants to businesses in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Because the Village Enterprise Fund's administrative office is in San Carlos, CA, about 25 miles from San Francisco, we were lucky enough to have VEF's Development Director, Barbara Lamb Hall, there to chat with us and to show us a quick PowerPoint presentation.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!" An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t My interest in online interaction is very recent; last year I asked what a blog and a wiki was. t have a clue."

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

It opens up the world for us to do all kinds of really amazing things we’ve wanted to do in the world of edtech that you can’t do in a strictly offline sense,” the founder added. With fresh demand, Shagaya sees uLesson evolving into a live, online platform instead of an offline, asynchronous content play.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

While Nigeria and Kenya have been at the forefront of African fintech innovation, activities in Egypt are beginning to shape up nicely. The platform helps online and offline merchants to accept payments from their customers via several products and solutions. Asides from Egypt, Paymob is also present in Kenya, Pakistan, and Palestine.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. We interact with our friends and colleagues in real time on and offline — either in the office or out at coffee, on Twitter or social networks. Indirect Content.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Paymob also has a POS solution for offline merchants where they can receive in-store card payments. Paymob claims to serve merchants in other markets, including Kenya and Palestine; however, it is yet to set shop in these regions. ” Egypt’s Paymob closes $18.5M Series A to expand payments services across MENA.

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