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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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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

We lecture, and we're also trainers with the US Attorney's Office, so we've given trainings to police on how to identify victims of trafficking. I also lived in Sri Lanka right about the time that sex tourism became a big deal, and saw it firsthand.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been ongoing since 2001.

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The tier list: how Facebook decides which countries need protection

The Verge

Other countries, such as Ethiopia, may not even have the company’s community standards translated into all of its official languages. Other countries, such as Ethiopia, may not even have the company’s community standards translated into all of its official languages. Fact-checking partners don’t exist. War rooms never open.

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