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TechInnovation – Family app Life360 announces $2.1M investment round from celebs and influencers (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

Family communication and tracking app Life360 has announced a new investment round that will see the company bringing on board a number of “celeb” investors and...

TechInnovation – Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

Following similar moves by Apple, Google, and more recently Amazon, among others, e-commerce platform Shopify announced today it’s also lowering its cut of developer revenue across...

TechInnovation – Nansen raises $12M from a16z to help investors make sense of crypto markets (Lucas Matney, TechCrunch)

While the ambitions of crypto investors have swelled even faster than the market has in recent months, institutional players have had a mountain of...

USA – 5 policies Washington should enact to end the climate crisis and joblessness (Bobby Franklin, Michael Brown, TechCrunch)

The importance of the U.S. startup ecosystem was made crystal clear during the pandemic: Many of us came to rely on new technologies that...

Morocco – Resilient buildings make urban Morocco safer (World Bank blogs)

PHILIPP PETERMANN THERESA ABRASSART THOMAS MOULLIER ANTOINE HANZEN GHIZLANE AQARIDEN YOUSSEF ELOUARDY In Morocco, cities are exposed to risks arising from fire, unregulated construction,...

Climate Change – In the race against climate change, cooperation between energy and transport is more critical than ever (Bernard Obika, Clotilde Rossi di...

In the face of the climate crisis, addressing carbon emissions from transport is more urgent than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the...

Global Health – Primary health care needs to be fit for the post COVID world – how do we do that? (Muhammad Ali Pate,...

As a physician, I know firsthand the important role that primary health care plays in the health of individuals, families, and communities. When it...

Somalia – Light at the end of the tunnel? Update on the impact of COVID-19 on the private sector in Somalia (Asta Bareisaite, Gemechu...

As documented in our previous blogpost summarizing the findings from round 1 of the Somalia COVID-19 (coronavirus) Follow-Up Enterprise, the pandemic and necessitated public health...

Africa – Transforming public transport in Africa: Are automated fare systems the answer? (Fatima Arroyo Arroyo, Kaori Niina, World Bank blogs)

Africa has been a hotspot for the rapid growth of micropayment services, mobile and smartphone-based transactions and the technical, sales and administrative platforms that...

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