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Could Zimbabwe’s Public Transport Chaos Catalyze The Adoption Of Electric Scooters For Personal Mobility?

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Siemens Stiftung’s “Testing E-Mobility Business Models at WE Hub Victoria Limited in Kenya” report aptly highlights the importance of mobility in the introduction section of the report by stating that “Mobility is the basis for the overall development of a society: it gives the population access to jobs, markets, social facilities, and health care.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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In Kenya, for example, mobile transactions last year were up by about 20 percent over 2020, according to Capacity. She got an opportunity to do so in 2012, when she took the job of CTO in IBM’s Central, East, and West Africa regional office, in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya was where mobile money became a success.”.

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Building a Fleet of Personal EVs in Kenya

Cars That Think

One startup trying to solve this problem is ARC Ride , in Nairobi, Kenya. A key person involved in the critical tasks of assembling, servicing, and testing the company’s vehicles and related products is Magdalene Maluta. It also has plans to expand to other cities in Kenya as well as neighboring countries in East Africa. “We

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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In addition to its own support for the McKinney Landfill project, Audi (another Volkswagen Group company) is also supporting (likewise teaming with 3Degrees), a UN REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) project in Kenya to offset emissions from the A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid.

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World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

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The second team IEEE Spectrum corresponded with is a trio from Nairobi, Kenya: Conrad Whitaker , Dexter Findley , and Tracey Kamande. “Better to ourselves, our neighbors, our planet. And the idea that such a world might be possible is a future that I want to fight for.”

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Is Worldcoin a Crypto-currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?

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That’s because Worldcoin , the company behind the project, wants to create the most widely and evenly distributed cryptocurrency ever by giving every person on the planet the same small allocation of coins. So far, Worldcoin has signed up more than 700,000 users in some 25 countries, including Chile, France, and Kenya.