Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media. Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

” The conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society. The program accomplished the following: 220 organizations participated.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

Tunisia is very interesting this week! The WSIS conference is going on, human rights activists are getting beaten up, and we're talking about how information technology can help build a better world. I gave my talk here on Tuesday, entitled: Building a Global Library for People with Print Disabilities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Appetito , the Egyptian platform that delivers groceries and household products to customers from 11 dark stores across three cities in the North African country, is acquiring Lamma , an identical startup with operations in the Maghreb regions of Tunisia and Morocco. . The deal is expected to close by the end of Q3 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications. Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Like many startups playing in the B2B e-commerce space across the continent, Chari digitizes the largely fragmented FMCG sector in Morocco and Tunisia. Once it gets operations right in Morocco, Chari plans to expand this BNPL service to Tunisia and other French-speaking countries in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m writing this post from Tunisia. What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

And, by the time this post is published, I will be on a plane somewhere between Paris and Tunis. This first week of the new year, I will doing a week of training for NGOs and trainers in Tunisia for the Women’s Economic Sustainability Tunisia project with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Visualizing Prominent Information Flows during the Tunisia and Egypt Revolutions – This is a very cool visualization from danah boyd pulling together twitter accounts and displaying tweets, reactions, and much more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The e-commerce platform is available in 11 markets across Africa, including Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Morocco. Jumia is currently the biggest e-commerce platform in Africa, leading hundreds of others, including Nigeria’s Marketplace Africa and South Africa’s Souq, and bidorbuy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

As Mylerz expands to Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, Fawry, its payments partner, will come along to provide electronic payment and cash collection services. Mylerz growth funding round was led by Lorax Capital Partners, an Egypt-based private equity firm with participation from Fawry, one of the biggest e-payment companies in Egypt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s the same process in Tunisia, its second market after Morocco. Also, the company will use the funding to get licences to offer other financial services like remittances, bill payments, mobile top-up and buy now, pay later in Tunisia and Morocco. The Moroccan startup currently transacts about $2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The Team from Tunisia identified Sawty as an example of a networked nonprofit in Tunisia, while the Lebanon Team pointed to Nasawiya. They also work many different partners to spread the program so that his organization isn’t doing everything. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

at Stanford and spending most of his professional life in Silicon Valley working at various companies, CEO Noureddine Tayebi returned to Algeria to get involved in the country’s nascent tech scene to start a company and build technical talent in the Maghreb region (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia). After earning a Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2012

Chema Gargouri, Country Director, Tunisia, @chemagarcat. Nada Hamzeh, Country Directory, Lebanon, @NADO23. Mona Messlmany, Training Coordinator, Lebanon, @MonaSul. Widad El Hanafi,Country Director, Morocco, @woodalisa.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

In 2020, it selected 20 startups into the program (eight from Nigeria, six from Kenya, two from South Africa and one each from Ghana, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe). Formerly known as Google Launchpad Accelerator, Google for Startups Accelerator Africa has worked with up to 50 startups across 17 African countries.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

The study analyzed a collection of contact tracing apps, which are designed to inform and monitor physical contact between people in the event someone contracts COVID-19, from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, France, Iceland, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Dipendra has been a subscriber to Bookshare.org for our O'Reilly technical titles, but we're trying to move beyond these into serving a full range of books with publisher and author permissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The first day of training is this Sunday and we’ll be covering networked approaches for NGOs and social media trainers. The participants include in-country teams from six different countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Chari digitizes the largely fragmented FMCG sector in parts of French-speaking Africa, particularly Morocco and Tunisia. It is one of the few African startups to publicly disclose its valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Ecosystems outside the top four include countries like Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco and Tunisia. Outside the top four countries, startups from Ghana, Algeria, Tunisia and Senegal raised the most equity funding. Partech: Nigeria represented 23% of African tech’s total equity funding. billion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

More than 130 are in AI research, engineering, ML and DevOps departments, while half of the team is based in its African offices: South Africa, Nigeria and Tunisia. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

Julian’s take on the coverage: To be honest, so much of the rhetoric around the use of social media in Egypt and Tunisia makes me want to scream — folks act like these American tools just dropped from the sky like humanitarian food rations, set to save the people from their (American-supported, natch) dictators.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

According to the accelerator, six new countries home to these companies are making their appearance for the first time : Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Chile, Brazil and Singapore. YC says 16% of the companies in its current list (44 out of 267) are based outside the U.S., compared to its first list, which included just seven non-U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

However, its staff cuts across its five markets, Tunisia, Kenya, the U.S., And despite its continuous squabble with these incumbents due to eating into their market share, Wave claims to serve over 10 million users monthly across its operating markets. Wave is the first unicorn out of Senegal and the overall Francophone Africa region.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Over the next 12 months, Glovo says it will invest an additional €50 million ($60 million) to drive expansion into more cities on the continent and move into new markets like Tunisia, where it plans to launch in Tunis next month. According to a statement released by the company, the expansion will make Glovo’s services available to 6.5

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

And even though this game was released a few months ago, the relevance of promoting non-violent revolution is more apparent than ever with the events in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. # People Power is a great training ground for anyone interested in mobilizing a social movement, but not sure of where to start.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

He adds the likes of Tunisia, Morocco, Rwanda as second-tier countries quickly entering global investors’ radar and building more sophisticated ecosystems. ” Ghana also emerged in Giuliani’s forecast. Tom Jackson , co-founder of Disrupt Africa, doesn’t mention any names.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2011

He was inspired when the citizens of Egypt and Tunisia used satellite connections to contact Internet service providers in other countries, when their governments shut down access to the World Wide Web. Foundation wants to use technology to bring freedom to the Mideast and believes an OpenMesh of wireless networks could help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

This is an exercise I used in Tunisia. Finally, since we were on the Gold Coast on the beach, I suggested that we do a walking debrief on the beach, although we adapted it to the beach promenade. Getting fresh air and walking helps people digest. Walking Debrief on the Beach Promenade - My Favorite Closer. Walking Debrief. v/bEZXiLl7HEU.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The national anthem from Tunisia brought tears to my eyes – in part – because feeling in which they sang it – and the team leader, Chema, has a beautiful singing voice. The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. In the above video, Naeema Zarif.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

In the morning, we did a team building exercise to better understand the network core, the in-country teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan. For example,we agreed that we could quote those who are tweeting and have open accounts, but our tweets would not attribute quotes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Tunisia, due to its inhibiting government policies, is an unfriendly place to operate any startup or access venture capital — excluding InstaDeep, Tunisian startups raised $17 million last year, according to a report by VC firm Partech. On the other side of the table are somewhat naive views that argue InstaDeep’s “Africanity.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

Social media, particularly, have proven to be powerful and exceedingly important, especially as we watch the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. If anyone ever once doubted the energy and organizing force of technology, rest assured they dont anymore.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Its other current markets are Tunisia, Tanzania and Uganda. Bolt, Uber’s main rival in Africa and Europe, is also planning to enter at least two new markets within the North and West Africa regions before the year ends.

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