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Digital Inclusion A Priority In Namibia

TechImpact

As discussed in a recent report from Jim Lynch at Techsoup, the NGO MyDigitalBridge just recently started its work in the mostly rural nation of Namibia. … Continued The post Digital Inclusion A Priority In Namibia appeared first on Tech Impact. Blog Leadership Tech Africa green tech HIV/AIDS TechSoup'

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YC-backed Namibian startup JABU gets $3.2M for its B2B e-commerce and retail play

TechCrunch

CEO David Akinin founded JABU in mid-2020 to fix Namibia’s inefficient and almost nonexistent supply chain and distribution. Its platform connects over 6,000 retailers to local and multinational suppliers — such as Namibia Breweries Limited, ABInBev, Bokomo, Coca-Cola, Namibmills — and digitizes orders, payments and logistics.

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Animals Crossing: AI Helps Protect Wildlife Across the Globe

NVIDIA AI Blog

million acres of rhino habitats, and has recently expanded to help conservation efforts in Kenya and Namibia. The startup, which uses the Ai2 EarthRanger platform, protects more than 1.2

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Vela pulsar emits the most energetic gamma ray beams ever discovered

TechSpot

telescopes located in Namibia to detect the highest gamma ray emissions ever observed from a pulsar. An international team of scientists working with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescopes has made a groundbreaking discovery: pulsars can be even more energetic than previously believed. Read Entire Article

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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. After Mongolia, Namibia is the least densely populated country in the world. I’m well acquainted with the big digital inclusion projects in the U.S. like Connect2Compete. Citizen Connect.

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Namibian B2B e-commerce retail platform JABU raises $15M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

This time, it’s a startup that was in the news this January: Namibia-based JABU , whose $3.2 In January, the company had over 6,000 merchants using its platform across Namibia, South Africa and Zambia. million seed round we covered. CEO David Akinin said that number has increased by 50%.

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Finclusion raises $20M to build out credit-led neobank offering across Africa

TechCrunch

The fintech intends to grow existing operations in South Africa, Eswatini, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania and expand into Mozambique and Uganda. It follows the $20 million debt facility supplied by emerging markets debt provider Lendable last September.

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