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While the mentioned events are confirmed, the team also plans to hold events in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. We at ArcticStartup heart the Garage48 event for all the rush and enthusiasm that comes forth in the 48 hours of pure innovation. But the weather at the events here in the Nordics and Baltics was perhaps just a bit too cold and needed some equatorial treatment, which is exactly the treatment Garage48 will be getting. MORE
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MAY 9, 2013
Beyonic founder Luke Kyohere, from Uganda, said 20 percent of the $150 [.] BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Beyonic, a company whose software connects major global finance sources with payment networks in the developing world to facilitate mobile payments, won the IBM Global Entrepreneur pitch competition Wednesday at the IBM campus on Burnett. The post Beyonic Wins the IBM Global Entrepreneur Pitch Competition appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin
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I spent that week in Uganda observing appropriate technology in action with one of its most vocal practitioners and proponents. Foreign Policy''s latest cover argues that Silicon Valley start-ups can''t fix global problems with apps. It''s true--but that''s not the end of the story.
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JULY 19, 2012
Farmers and traders in countries like India, Niger, and Uganda have reported business growth as a direct result of access to mobile payment and other mobile applications. By 2015, cell phone plans will outnumber people. Take a look at some of the stats behind this booming market.
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JANUARY 23, 2012
Each of the 17 seamstresses we employ was at one time abducted by a rebel army operating in northern Uganda, and many of these women escaped the group carrying children fathered by their captors. What is quickly becoming tradition, we are kicking off the first series of the year looking at our most recent winner of The Best Product Person. Chris Sarette, The Best Product Person of 2011 , is the estimable subject of this series.
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Thakkar, who is a native of the United Kingdom and grew up in Uganda, now has operations in 19 African countries and just fewer than 9,000 employees. Africa hasn''t always been a safe place for entrepreneurs. But that''s changing.
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Or Uganda for example. My final year at YouTube was spent on a set of activities aimed at extending YouTube’s capabilities as an education and activism platform, not just an entertainment vehicle.
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Chande, whose family was expelled from Uganda by notorious dictator Idi Amin, has been a member of the board of the prestigious Land Securities, and was the CEO of Trillium, which broke new ground in the management of sale and lease-back property.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2013
In Brazil, Ecuador, Uganda, and Switzerland, the rate of business creation by gender is equal. Women entrepreneurs are more optimistic about 2013 than 2012, according to new data. Here are their priorities and concerns. Could 2013 be the year of the woman entrepreneur?
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APRIL 23, 2014
By early 2015, Bridge will have academies in Nigeria and Uganda, with India soon following. Bridge International Academies has built 300 schools serving 100,000 students. But that''s only the beginning of its mission to wipe out poverty and make money doing it.
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MARCH 11, 2012
Some questioned whether the effort was over-simplifying the situation and others pointed out that Kony was no longer in Uganda.
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NOVEMBER 11, 2013
After surviving the Rwandan genocide, Ashish Thakkar left high school in Uganda to launch a small computer business that would later become Mara Group , one of Africa’s most successful conglomerates. My mother was born in Tanzania, and my father in Uganda.
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MAY 4, 2016
Or Uganda for example. My final year at YouTube was spent on a set of activities aimed at extending YouTube’s capabilities as an education and activism platform, not just an entertainment vehicle.
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MAY 30, 2012
Mitchell, a senior at Guajome Park Academy Charter, was inspired to start her business after making a trip to Uganda where she volunteered at an orphanage and befriended a five-year-old former street child whose mother is dying of AIDS. Touched by her story, Mitchell created a business to sell the unique handmade jewelry created by the women of Uganda. WASHINGTON, D.C. –
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AUGUST 12, 2013
The 2012 GEM report surveyed 198,000 people in 69 countries and in all but seven of the countries surveyed women represent a minority of the nation''s entrepreneurs, with the exceptions being Panama, Thailand, Ghana, Ecuador, Nigeria, Mexico and Uganda.
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MARCH 6, 2015
Here are the startups rasing A rounds: MoboFree is #1 social e-commerce marketplace in Nigeria with strong footprint in Uganda, Zimbabwe and Ghana with almost 4M registered members who are generating up to 2M daily pageviews. A guest post by Edmundas Bal?ikonis ikonis , CEO of Trackduck.
Inc Startups
APRIL 23, 2014
Founded in 2008 by Paul Niehaus, Michael Faye, and Rohit Wanchoo, GiveDirectly enables donors to transfer money directly to the phones of people living in poverty in Kenya and Uganda. What would happen if charities cut out the middleman and asked people to send cash directly to the poor? GiveDirectly is in the process of finding out. The old saying goes: If you give a man a fish, he''ll eat for a day, but teach a man to fish, and he''ll eat for a lifetime.
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 18, 2012
This Man Can't Stop Innovating For our June issue, Leigh Buchanan traveled to Kampala, Uganda, the headquarters of Moses Kizza Musaazi's Technology for Tomorrow. The past 12 months brought many memorable stories from Inc. We've selected a few of our favorites. Each year, Inc.
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APRIL 30, 2012
While I was in Ethiopia, editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan traveled in Uganda to meet Moses Kizza Musaazi, an entrepreneur whose work represents, as Leigh writes in her story about him, "a kind of turnkey thinking about human suffering." Today, the charitable impulse seems to come early and often to entrepreneurs still in their formative, company-building years. Traditionally, successful people turned their attention to the woes of the world only after they made their bundle.
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APRIL 14, 2011
While the mentioned events are confirmed, the team also plans to hold events in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. We at ArcticStartup heart the Garage48 event for all the rush and enthusiasm that comes forth in the 48 hours of pure innovation. But the weather at the events here in the Nordics and Baltics was perhaps just a bit too cold and needed some equatorial treatment, which is exactly the treatment Garage48 will be getting.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2014
I had just moved back to the US from living in Uganda working with an artisan group, and was thrilled to find a brand here in Austin that so perfectly aligned with the kind of work I wanted to continue doing. “Empowering women through design” is core value Raven + Lily uses to guide their business. I was introduced to R+L and their Ops Director Cameron Crake via our mutual friend Katy Roth down in Austin, TX.
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Korde is an Indian who also spent some of his childhood in Uganda and then moved to the US. Dorit and I went to the most amazing concert last night at the Boston Philharmonic Discovery Series, of which we have been subscribers for several years.
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
“In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer.
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
“In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer.
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My friend Teddy, who is from Uganda, writes passionately about the topic at Project Diaspora , highlighting the development work being done every day by Africans, and often looking at expatriate aid programs with a critical eye. In college, my major was International Service and Development.
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MAY 2, 2011
Mekorot National Water Company will develop Uganda’s water infrastructures under an agreement signed with the government-owned National Water and Sewerage Corporation. Mekorot will first build projects in Karamoja district in Uganda’s arid northeast, but hopes to expand its work throughout the country and to include the development of sewage treatment plants.
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