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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. I grew up in a small town in north Iowa—Cedar Falls, to be exact.

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Tunisian enterprise AI startup InstaDeep raises $100M from AI Capital, BioNTech, Google

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They can range from a large shipping company finding ways to efficiently transport thousands of containers to a railway station, with more than 30,000 kilometres of railway, trying to automate scheduling for 10,000 trains. Two years ago, InstaDeep formed a multi-year strategic collaboration with BioNTech to launch a joint AI innovation lab.

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African Startups Raising Investment to Further Drive Economic and Social Impact

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In collaboration with the implementing country partners, local GIZ representatives and the investor committee, 40 top startups have been selected to partake in the program. The fintech company Kobopay provides a wide range of services using a community-based approach. Transportation and storage.

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What Will Workplaces Look Like After The Pandemic?

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Operating like this has given us an upper hand and enabled us to best support Impact Hubs in transitioning their work and communities online. . The challenge ahead is helping new ‘ knowmads’ to learn how to collaborate, think, create, and connect productively. Human conne ction and community is at the center of COVID-19 recovery.

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Impacting world hunger via SMS

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With unpredictable weather conditions and a variable distribution of rainfall occurring in the tropics, forecasts are critical: they play a major part in deciding which crops to grow, when to harvest them, and when to transport them. Future vision.