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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

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Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. After Mongolia, Namibia is the least densely populated country in the world. Image: logo ( MyDigitalBridge ). I’m well acquainted with the big digital inclusion projects in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Conquering a Cruel Continent for a Cause

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The Namib Desert in Namibia (has the highest sand dunes on earth). He runs these ultramarathons to raise money and generate awareness for charitable causes. Images: David Barnard. The Sahara Desert in Egypt (the hottest desert on earth). The Gobi Desert in China (the windiest desert on earth). spanhidden.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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These sentient things combine to generate vast oceans of data about us, which is in turn consolidated into big data in the cloud. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. in Namibia is showing the way for providing Internet access in Africa. It’s a longer-term trend.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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The cards are unique and beautiful and carry the voices of women (and some men) depicted in images and words and offer compassionate healing for those who both make them, and for those who receive them. Before this point I had not been able to affect the kind of change I was seeking by being a fine art photographer only.