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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the issues I was exploring on my trip to Africa was the expansion of the use of our Martus software there. And, of course, there are many human rights and social justice issues in Africa. There's more in the press release, and we will be expanding our efforts in Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria. Department of State.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present.

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Asset financiers to the rescue as Bolt plans to sign-up 200,000 new drivers in Africa to meet growing demand for ride-hailing services

TechCrunch

“We are having to find ways to really attract as many drivers as we can… like make their earnings potential as good as possible so that we can bring people (drivers) onto our platform…to solve this issue around access to cars.”. Paddy Partridge, Africa regional director, Bolt Ride Hailing. Image Credits: Bolt.

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

The Verge

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

TechCrunch

April 12, 2023 Italy gives OpenAI to-do list for lifting ChatGPT suspension order Italy’s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month — when it said it suspected the AI chatbot service was in breach of the EU’s GSPR and ordered the U.S.-based

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ExpressVPN review 2025: Fast speeds and a low learning curve

Engadget

We switched to a server labeled simply "London" and unblocked it without issue. ExpressVPN has IP addresses from nine nations in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela) and six in Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco and South Africa).

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Calling MENA! Put your city on the TC map by joining TechCrunch’s Cities Survey 2021

TechCrunch

These formed part of a broader series of surveys we’re doing regularly for TechCrunch+ , our subscription service that unpacks key issues for startups and investors. Algiers, Algeria. This is the follow-up to the huge survey of investors (see also below) we’ve done over the last six or more months, largely in capital cities.