Happy Monday! I hope your week is off to a great start! This week I am featuring two new funding opportunities and an amazing report from GSMA.
As always, please let me know if you have something you'd like featured here!
Jesse Orndorff
Tech for Good
The world’s biggest social media platform, Facebook, recently unveiled its human rights policy. It is a step in the right direction. But declaring a policy is one thing; implementing it is quite another.
In one “crucial first step” for life on Mars, NASA says an experimental device on its Perseverance rover has made oxygen by using the red planet’s carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.
Have you used Frictionless Data documentation in the past and been confused or wanted more examples? Are you a brand new Frictionless Data user looking to get started learning?
We invite you all to visit our new and improved documentation portal.
Thanks to a fund that the Open Knowledge Foundation was awarded from the Open Data Institute, we have completely reworked the guides of our Frictionless Data Framework website according to the suggestions from a cohort of users gathered during several feedback sessions throughout the months of February and March.
This is the first in a series of blogs focusing on the insights from the State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2021.
A couple of weeks ago, we launched this year’s State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money. In a year like no other, the report looks at how the mobile money industry responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report also highlights how the industry continued to grow, both in terms of accounts and in value transacted, despite the heavy onset of the crisis.
Digital platforms, defined as technology-enabled business models that create value by facilitating exchanges between two or more interdependent groups, have the potential to transform emerging economies in Africa and Southeast Asia by helping to eliminate inefficiencies and extend the reach of services to a greater number of customers.
This research identifies enablers that create a suitable environment for scaling digital platforms, explores strategies for scaling, and determines the challenges faced by digital platforms trying to scale. The report provides an update to the haves/needs framework, considering how this structure can be applied to digital platforms and mobile operators in developing countries. Finally, the report offers recommendations for key stakeholders.
Would you like a chance to reach more of your target audience and help them discover your health product or service? Nivi, Inc., through a grant from USAID, will offer four organizations the opportunity to accelerate their user engagement with a 12-month fee-free subscription to the askNivi chatbot platform in Nigeria, Kenya or India.
With Getty Images’ mission to move the world, we are partnering with Dove and Girlgaze to promote diversity within creative commercial photography and videography, elevating the work and the voices of women, female‑identifying and non‑binary artists. The #ShowUs Grant provides financial support and mentorship to artists who are committed to authentically representing women, female‑identifying and non‑binary individuals in commercial photography and videography.