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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. You can read more about it on the Tunisia Team’s blog.

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Bookshare.org.in (India)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dipendra and I have been talking about working together for years, but during this meeting we were able to get down and plan out our work phase by phase. I'll have a ton more to say about Indian languages over the next few days! We're going to write a more detailed document together on this by email over the next month (we hope!),

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Tunisian enterprise AI startup InstaDeep raises $100M from AI Capital, BioNTech, Google

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Companies are phasing from the first generation of AI, which deals with pattern, text and image recognition, to decision-making AI, which helps them make timely decisions in complex spaces. InstaDeep currently has over 170 employees. When InstaDeep launched, Africa wasn’t in the picture detailing AI’s contribution to global economic growth.

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MaxAB gets an extra $15M, acquires YC-backed Moroccan startup WaystoCap

TechCrunch

.” While the acquisition signals MaxAB’s move into Morocco, it also shows the company’s entry into the Maghreb markets — Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, where there’s little or no contest. ” El Bassunie will take over the position as the managing director at MaxAB Morocco.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

For example, The National Statistical Institute (NSI) of Tunisia has posted the Household Income and Consumption Surveys (HICSs) and Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) becoming the first agency in the region to offer access to such comprehensive data.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can use a “lean start up” approach for the development phase by doing a pilot or experiment and adjust. Don’t be so focused on getting through your lesson plan if you feel that participants need understand the content in a different way. The photos above are from a Train the Trainers workshop I did in Tunisia.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

July 13, 2023 The FTC is reportedly investigating OpenAI The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigation over whether OpenAI’s flagship ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” statements about people.

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