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Weather-focused IBISA raises seed round to back its microinsurance solutions for low-income small farmers

TechCrunch

Since being founded in 2019, the company has worked with partners in the Philippines, India, and Niger. Its name actually stands for “Inclusive Blockchain Insurance Using Space Assets,” and it has been accelerated by the European Union’s blockchain-focused project Block.IS.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup

Created in 1992, Ateliers du Bocage (the name roughly translates to forest workshop) was founded as a project of the Emmaus Social Movement , a postwar European humanitarian movement organized to nonviolently defend and support the most destitute members of society. To date, the project has collected and recycled over half a million phones.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

What started out as a personal art project has grown into a global community project that has created over 800 handmade cards carrying voices to and from the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Costa Rica, Niger, Namibia, America, Haiti and Afghanistan. What else would you like Have Fun, Do Good's readers know about Traveling Postcards?

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

But if we want to try to get more specific, there are projections that are backed by science. Other hard-hit countries will include Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sudan, and Niger. So, if you imagine that scoring a goal represents an extreme event, then the larger the goal, the more likely you are to score.

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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

The organization's Clic Vert program is a French West African digital inclusion project that supplies refurbished phones and PCs to people who need them and also develops recycling capacity in the region. spanhidden. greentech electronics waste mobile phone Recycled and Refurbished Computers mobile phones event'

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