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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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How Amazon is growing its power during the pandemic

The Verge

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch ).

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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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