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Impact Entrepreneurship During the Polycrisis: An Interview with Laurie Lane-Zucker
The impact sector has proven that business can do good. But how can it make those impacts last, as the polycrisis puts communities, ecosystems and business models at increasing risk around the world? Those are some of the questions at the heart of a new book, “The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy,” by Laurie Lane-Zucker, the founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur. In this interview, he shares guidance from the book — and from his decades of work as a pioneering voice in the impact space — on how the sector can navigate the growing complexity of the global challenges it faces today.
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- Social Enterprise
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Nairobi Targets Creators With New Fees as County Expands Digital Tax Net
The sharpest divide is between local and external filmmakers, with foreign productions paying more than six times what local producers pay for a single shoot.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WhatsApp Gets New Chief as Meta Taps India’s CRED Founder Kunal Shah and Invests $900 Million in Startup
India has emerged as a key battleground for Meta’s ambitions in business messaging and digital payments, areas seen as critical to WhatsApp’s next phase of growth.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: The Heart of The South African Film Industry
A debut feature set on the Cape Flats turns a familiar crime premise into a quiet study of fatherhood, masculinity, and survival. But its limited reach reveals the deeper problems facing South African film.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Omnia Signs $2 Billion Wind Energy Deal With Casa Dos Ventos to Power ByteDance Data Center in Brazil – Report
The data center is currently under development and, when completed, is expected to be the largest in Brazil, representing a total investment of more than $39bn.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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Spill Games Raises $3.1 Million to Build a Systems-Led Global Mobile Gaming Company From India
Spill Games, a Bengaluru mobile gaming startup, raised USD 3.1 million Seed funding led by Centre Court Capital and PeerCapital to scale its systems driven casual games portfolio.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Creators are Cashing in on a “Facebook Renaissance”
The platform helps creators build a loyal, paying community, which is especially crucial at a time of declining organic reach on other platforms.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Indian Screenwriters Sound a Distress Call as New Report Reveals Worsening Pay, Credit Chaos and AI Pressure
Data reveals how most Indian screenwriters feel underpaid, chase dues, and a majority see AI being used as a negotiating tool.
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- Technology
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