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TECHNOLOGY AND THE AFRICAN GIRL. THE JOURNEY SO FAR…

Transformify

If you ask me I would say things are changing and so fast, the reason I am able to write this article and have it shared with a global community gives me hope. Large government donors, NGOs, and the private sector believe girls could play a big role in resolving poverty and making development gains through ICT. who writes from Nigeria.

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

For start-ups looking to achieve leadership positions in emerging and highly competitive global markets, it makes sense to prioritize speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty. How do we achieve cooperation amongst a diverse range of governments, industries, and communities, all of whom have different and often competing interests?

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

Both Sides of the Table

As this astute journalist pointed out, DataSift “ likely would have cost a lot more to acquire.” Put simply, the amount of public, real-time information that is now being created by hundreds of millions of users and soon billions of objects will change the way every major business, organization or government must operate.

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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

According to Nepali government officials, it will cost over $6.6bn and at least five years to reconstruct and rebuild the country. Women represent two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally. The investor’s business activities are governed by the applicable law in the country of domiciliation. Source: Aljazeera).

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