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25 Global Trends in Giving That Nonprofits Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Increased access to online and mobile giving technology in Africa, Asia, and South America will likely grow these numbers significantly in coming years. 67% volunteer locally, 9% volunteer internationally, and 56% attend fundraising events. View: Giving Trends in North America Data Sheet. South America.

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Warren gets $1.4 million to help local cloud infrastructure providers compete against Amazon and other giants

TechCrunch

million seed round led by Passion Capital, with plans to expand in South America, where it recently launched in Brazil. ” Many local providers also offer lower prices and give a large amount of bandwidth for free, attracting SMEs. . It recently closed a $1.4 AWS remains in firm control of the cloud infrastructure market.

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Zenysis raises $13.3M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa, Asia and South America

TechCrunch

At the same time, Stambolis said it was pretty clear that more developed ecosystems such as Silicon Valley didn’t care much about meeting struggling regions’ local health and development targets. Zenysis currently provides its software to governments and partners in nine countries across Africa, South America and Asia.

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost , a local advertising platform funded by Spark Capital and Google Ventures. Politically, Denver’s local government has championed social causes, including increased gun control, LGBT rights and programs for the homeless. A quality of life that beats Silicon Valley’s. city), restaurants and nightlife.

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A wave of LatAm fintechs are laying down new global commerce rails

TechCrunch

For global merchants expanding to the region — from Alibaba to Amazon and Shopee in e-commerce, to tech giants offering a variety of services such as Garena , Netflix or WhatsApp — Latin America’s payments landscape is particularly daunting. In South America alone, there are at least 14 different currencies.

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Autonomous tractor maker Monarch raises $61 million

TechCrunch

The system was introduced this year, with a pilot at a local vineyard. Along with the new funding infusion, the company is announcing plans to extend pilots globally, to South America, Europe and Asia. The Bay Area-based firm says the funding will go toward scaling manufacturing and sales for its self-titled electric tractor.

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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Central and South America.

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