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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

Pula is solving this problem by using technology and data. They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Thus, they are often neglected from financial protection against climate risks like flood, drought, pestilence and hail. million farmers.

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Digital bank Umba raises $15M, plans to expand into three new African markets

TechCrunch

The company’s CEO, Tiernan Kennedy , told TechCrunch on a call that Umba operates the credit-led model pioneered by Nubank, where it first solves the problem of liquidity for customers before upselling them on a broad spectrum of banking products. fintech with operations in Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya.

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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

Datasets like ‘mozambique-attacks-on-aid-operations-education-health-and-protection’, have a mix of data files related to both healthcare and attacks. So assuming one category per dataset might not be the best way to frame the problem, datasets are reused across categories. Conclusion The technique seems to be quite promising.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

Can you go from problem to solution, and can you go from an eco-chic politics that engages the elite, to more of an eco-populist politics that engages everybody else. And that is a big problem because in order for us to make sure that there are green pathways out of poverty, you know, the market is not going to do that by itself.

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