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Tech for Good During COVID-19: Snorkels, Thank You Notes and Headspace
Everyone is living a different pandemic right now. Your relationship with shelter-in-place mandates and social distancing can look wildly different depending on your profession, age, health and, often, privilege. It’s why a week of monotony for some of us might mean a week of madness for others. The best we can do, as exhaustion and Zoom fatigue sets in, is try to be patient, kind and thoughtful.
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- Coronavirus
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- coronavirus, EdTech, health, pandemics, social business
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COVID-19 Has Stalled Un’s Goals to Reduce Global Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change
Crucial global goals to reduce hunger and poverty and curb climate change have gone backwards or stalled, the United Nations Secretary-General warns in a new report, as the Covid-19 outbreak moves from being a health crisis to becoming the “worst human and economic crisis of our lifetimes”.
The number of people suffering hunger has increased, climate change is occurring faster than predicted, and inequality is increasing within and among countries, António Guterres said in his Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals or SDG 2020 report.- Categories
- Coronavirus, Environment, Finance, Health Care
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Post: 2019 Was a Record Year for VC Funding in Emerging Markets
Last year marked records for venture investment in a number of emerging private capital markets, including Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, India and CEE and CIS , according to a recent report by EMPEA.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship
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