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

TechCrunch

Prior to Zenysis, he worked as a diplomat with the United Nations. Take, for instance, its efforts in Mozambique in 2019 when the country was hit by two massive cyclones, Kenneth and Idai. When this crisis hit Mozambique, it was battling infrastructural issues from electricity to accessing telecommunications and health centers.

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Unlocking the power of data for wildlife conservation: An alliance between EarthRanger and Tableau Foundation

Tableau

In Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park, rangers study the map on their screen to see if there are any places they haven’t checked. Among one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, Gorongosa National Park in the heart of central Mozambique is perhaps Africa’s greatest wildlife restoration story.

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GeoGuessr made figuring out where on Earth you are the hottest new esport

The Verge

The years-old browser game became a competitive thrill this year The camera-mounted Google truck that drove through South Africa’s Kruger National Park is equipped with a distinct, camo-green paint job and a pair of white racks resting on its rooftop. With just the sun, the mountains, and a handful of road signs, the sky’s the limit.

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Unlocking the power of data for wildlife conservation: An alliance between EarthRanger and Tableau Foundation

Tableau

In Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park, rangers study the map on their screen to see if there are any places they haven’t checked. Among one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, Gorongosa National Park in the heart of central Mozambique is perhaps Africa’s greatest wildlife restoration story.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. He has an MBA in Supply Chain and Finance from Michigan State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness from the National University of Rwanda.

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Using GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 to Apply Text-defined Data Quality Checks on Humanitarian Datasets

Towards Data Science

Category 'Geography & Infrastructure : Administrative Divisions' is defined as: Vector geographic data describing the sub-national administrative divisions of a location, usually a country, including the names and unique identifiers, usually p-codes, of each administrative division.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

That ability to stand in awe and reverence for what a precious gift it is, just to be alive, and just to share this planet with so many other beautiful sister and brother species and nations and neighborhoods. Just that quality of reverence, that is really the gateway through which we can begin to rediscover our capacity to do good.

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