TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Remittances from abroad reached $45 billion in 2021, with Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe leading the list of recipient countries. Norway’s Pangea Trust, through its equity crowdfunding platform Connect , is unlocking diaspora remittance inflows as funding source for early and growth-stage startups in Africa.

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Medium Technology Section

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Oil Producing Countries, Companies Face Catastrophic Future Continue reading on Medium

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Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

My daughter Ruby blossomed into a leader at her school following a trip to Zimbabwe, where she saw innovative solutions firsthand. We must teach them the bigger picture of global issues and prepare them to use their future thought leadership and resources to participate in global change making.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Riddle me this: Why has Botswana, a landlocked country in the south of Africa, become one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations — Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone among them — remain caught in a miasma of violence and poverty? You might chalk it… This story continues at The Next Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2006

One of the posts/blogs that caught my eye was Sokwanele - This is Zimbabwe and their celebration of the women of Zimbabwa through WOZA (Women of Zimbabwe Arise). And through honouring them we recognise the courage of all Zimbabwe women battling in these difficult times - not just for today, but for every day of the year."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

They are an awesome organization that was founded by two professional “futball” players from Zimbabwe. Their mission is to mobilize and empower the world for good, and part of that means putting their money where their mouth is and actively fundraising for a nonprofit every year. This year, they’ve selected Grassroot Soccer.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are some of the markets where the calling app is widely used. Talk360’s partnerships with agents like PesaPoint in Kenya and Flash in South Africa, also enables users to purchase airtime vouchers from a network of over 750,000 physical points of sale.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The documentation projects of our partners in Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have yielded so far six high-quality publications or reports about violations against LGBTI individuals in their communities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The app has active users in more than 170 countries, including South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. “We The company said its internet calling app has connected 2.3 million people worldwide so far this year, and attained 167% growth in customers and 130% in revenues.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

After an initial success helping Groupon scale internationally via a merger with Rocket’s incubation firm CityDeal, Rocket’s team have aggressively scaled businesses from Algeria to Zimbabwe — sometimes in a matter of weeks. No surprise, Rocket also has a graveyard of failed companies that were victims of bad internationalization efforts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

For example, Helios focuses on African companies and Thunes used part of its funding from the firm to build teams in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. Likewise, GGV Capital, which led its Series A , helped Thunes’ operations in China. When Insight approached Thunes, it was not planning to raise more funding.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2012

" He has been an advocate and organizer with immigrants and refugees in Charlotte, New York/Newark, and Los Angeles, as well as in Zimbabwe and Great Britain, for organizations including Detention Watch Network. and LA Media Reform Group , to name a few.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its expansion phase, backed by a $3 million pre-seed funding, the startup looks to tap some of the biggest distributors and e-commerce players in Ghana, and later Nigeria, to grow beyond Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, and Google executive Charles Murito made investments too.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

And Camfed raised $4,500 to build a roof on a school in Malawi , then turned around and funded another $3,386 project to give shoes to schoolgirls in Zimbabwe. . The Humane Society of the United States raised $20,000 in 6 days , all through their cause, to fund a team of journalists documenting the seal slaughter in Canada.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Just last year a team of data scientists under Zindi used machine learning to improve air quality monitoring in Kampala as another group helped Zimnat, an insurance company in Zimbabwe predict customer behavior — especially on who was likely to leave and the possible interventions that would make them stay.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He started the company in 2009, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions from Kenya to Zambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast, and vice versa. “If you sign to any mobile wallet somewhere in the world, starting with Africa, it should be enough to transact with anybody else in the world. That’s the grand mission of the company.” .

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Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Dear Sophie, I founded a startup in Zimbabwe a few years ago. if my passport expires in 5 months? I planned to visit the United States for the first time next month to check out the market and applied for a visitor visa. I’m planning to stay in the U.S.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Bartholomew Sullivan, a regional ICT officer for AFRRI, and Farm Radio International had been in touch with Kubatana, the parent organization of Freedom Fone, in Zimbabwe and thought IVR technology could be used to improve programming at the stations by making the experience and content more interactive. . Challenges and issues.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Build a school in Zimbabwe. The real reason that campaigns you see on GoFundMe have success is that they are set up for very specific and tangible projects : Help Bob get new teeth. Help pay for Sally’s cancer treatment. The more specific, the better. The community cries out for that. They want to solve a problem.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco. We probably have four or five dozen volunteers around the United States, and we have more than 500 individual donors all around the world, which to me is such a powerful statement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

It is hoping to start scaling up manufacturing in the local areas where the machines will be most needed, including Italy, India and Zimbabwe. The company originally started sales in 2020, and claims it has sold more than 250 units. Perhaps most impressively, the company has accomplished all of this on a shoestring budget.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Born in Zimbabwe, he was a childhood pen pal of the late Michael Tyler Fisher , a member of the billionaire Fisher Family real estate dynasty. “This moment represents the culmination of a journey that started in Harare, Zimbabwe,” Gutsa said. This journey has been one full circle for Gutsa.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Dear Sophie, I founded a startup in Zimbabwe a few years ago. Lacking PCB manufacturing is a national security risk : Over on TC+, Haje spoke with MacroFab’s CEO to dig into nearshoring PCB manufacturing in the U.S. Ask Sophie: Will I be allowed into the U.S. if my passport expires in 5 months?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Women Who Light the Dark by photojournalist Paola Gianturco (powerHouse books, September 2007) begins with a profile of Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe. Betty and 6 tenth grade students co-founded the Girl Child Network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. In this case, the girls were using poetry.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The most recent policy bars individuals who have been in South Africa, as well as Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe within the previous 14 days from entering the United States. As you know, the Biden administration instituted a travel policy on Nov. 29 due to the Omicron variant.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

At the bottom of the list: Afghanistan, once again the last-place holder; Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. The report is the result of a partnership between Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and an editorial board.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2010

We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar. As the world grows smaller, as we get to know each other, our 50,000 year old fear and hatred of others is bumping up against 50,000 years of the Golden Rule.

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