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Trainer’s Notebook: #Tech2Empower Peru

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Greetings from Cusco, Peru! I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru. This was a very empowering icebreaker – and a great way to get to know a little bit more about the people I will spending the next week with on a service project here in Cusco, Peru.

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

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Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” UBITS is also working on further personalizing its offering so that each employee has his/her own training path. “We

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Tech2Empower: The Llama Pack Project

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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. Training in breeding is part of the program.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru.

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Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion

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Elenas offers an automated on-boarding process for the sellers, but Oschin said that within the app, “we do a lot of work to train our sellers how to sell.” Indeed, one of its next steps is expanding across Latin America, starting with Mexico and then Peru. ” Elenas CEO Zach Oschin.

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Holberton raises $20M as it pivots to become an edtech SaaS company

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This program, a nine-month training program augmented by six months of employment, required students to pay the full $85,000 cost of its approved programs. It opened campuses in Mexico and Peru, for example. After a hearing, the BPPE allowed Holberton to continue to operate its other programs.

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Y Combinator widens its bet in edtech in latest batch

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In its latest batch, the famed accelerator had its highest number of edtech startups yet: 14 companies from around the world, working on everything from teacher monetization to homework apps to ways to train software engineers in an affordable fashion. Manara: A marketplace to connect Middle East talent to tech jobs.

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