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Ecobank Group and Google Cloud Announce Partnership to Accelerate Financial Inclusion and Innovation Across Africa
Google Cloud technologies aims to strengthen Ecobank’s platform for enhanced digital banking, small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) support, and economic development on the continent.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why Big Tech Is Threatened by a Global Push for Data Sovereignty
Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Global
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Press Release: MzN Launches AI “Digital Teammate” to Accelerate Fundraising for Small NGOs
This marks the first in a suite of specialist AI-powered agents built to tackle the most pressing challenges faced by NGOs.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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- Global
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Agentic AI Platform Raises $3.5 Million USD in a Pre-seed Funding Round to Drive US Expansion to Drive US and Latin American Expansion
As a remote-first company, Oraion is seeking strategic talent in the US and worldwide to accelerate their vision.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Google Drives AI to Boost Agriculture, Enrich Cultural Data in India
Google unveiled its new Agricultural Monitoring & Event Detection API, offering field‑level crop insights updated fortnightly, and launched the Amplify Initiative to build hyperlocal datasets across Indic languages.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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MzN Unveils AI “Digital Teammate” to Supercharge Small NGO Fundraising
At its core, the agent is a virtual teammate—able to identify donor opportunities, match funding prospects to organisational strengths, and build tailored fundraising strategies.
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- Finance
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South African Startup Secures $1.8 Million to Transform Energy Market with AI
The round will accelerate product development and customer growth as the company scales to meet rising demand for flexible, decentralised energy infrastructure.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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It’s Time to Rethink Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Introducing ‘Access-as-a-Service’
As global health funding contracts, traditional brick-and-mortar healthcare delivery models are becoming financially and operationally unsustainable, in Africa and across low- and middle-income countries. Joanne Peter at Jhpiego and Rob Beyer at Villgro Africa argue that this raises the need for innovative new pathways toward universal health coverage. They propose one such approach, developed through their work at the HealthTech Hub Africa: "Access-as-a-Service," a model that combines in-person care options with first-line healthcare provided through digital channels.
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- Health Care, Technology
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