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VisionLinker Travels to Peru on Humanitarian Mission

VisionLink

Aaron and his wife recently visited Arequipa, Peru. Providing the girls with a specialized skill will equip them with resources to enable them to support themselves in addition to avoiding poverty.

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Trainer’s Notebook: #Tech2Empower Peru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Greetings from Cusco, Peru! I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru. Our group of advisors includes 20 impressive women from 8 technology companies who are sharing their skills and expertise with local women entrepreneurs help them to scale their businesses.

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Tech2Empower: The Llama Pack Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Much like the encouragement of European immigrants to voyage to America in the 1900s to build population and skill base. Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating.

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UBITS snags $25M to create ‘the Netflix for corporate training’ in LatAm

TechCrunch

The employees can choose from lessons that focus on a range of skills — from soft to technical, such as leadership, sales and commercial capabilities, technology training and education, among others. . The startup also partners with “top local experts” to offer micro courses and live classes.

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Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI

The Verge

Similar to how researchers have achieved breakthrough AI advances in teaching computers to play sophisticated video games and helping software learn how to manipulate robotic hands in lifelike ways , reinforcement learning is a technique that allows software to teach itself skills through trial and error.

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Orchata raises $4M, aims to build a ‘Gopuff for Latin America’

TechCrunch

After honing his startup skills in San Francisco, he returned to Mexico with the idea of building a software company. Garcia is also eyeing Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Chile for future expansion. Luis Mario Garcia grew up in Mexico making deliveries for the grocery stores in his neighborhood.

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