The NonProfit Times
DECEMBER 4, 2024
This year Benin, Bolivia, Denmark, Panama, and Sri Lanka launched national GivingTuesday movements, and GivingTuesday launched its Europe Hub, which joins the Africa, India, Latin America & the Caribbean, and U.S. & Participants who volunteered in the U.S. was estimated at 9.2 was estimated at 16.6 million, a 17% jump.
The Verge
AUGUST 3, 2021
Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka. Sanjana didn’t hear back.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 20, 2021
There are dozens, maybe even hundreds, of companies playing in the cross-border remittances field, from incumbents like Western Union through a myriad of tech players, some of which have gone public and some of which remain privately held.
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Carinne Brody is a doctoral candidate in public health at UC Berkeley. She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University. She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University.
The Verge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
In a statement, Facebook said Das was leaving the company to pursue public service. Facebook had been slow to take action against many of the Hindu nationalist groups responsible for the violence, leading to concerns that the company was repeating the mistakes that preceded similar violence in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. The goal of this test is to understand if people prefer to have separate places for personal and public content. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. So they test and tweak.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2005
Benetech's Patrick Ball was on National Public Radio's Morning Edition show today in a piece entitled Uncertainty the Rule in Gauging Deaths from Tsunami. Our staff are actively working in the region in Sri Lanka and East Timor, but on December 26th were not in harm's way.
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