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Six South African startups have been selected for the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa: Black Founders programme, securing access to ZAR1 million (US$50,000) in non-dilutive funding and up to ZAR3.6 million (US$200,000) in Google Cloud credits. Google, which recently announced the eighth cohort of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme and also backs African […]
Jersey City Free Public Library (JCFPL) proudly shares that Nicole Zimmerman, Priscilla Gardner Main Library Bonette Children’s Rooms Manager, has been selected for the New Jersey Library Association Emerging Leaders Program (NJLA). The Emerging Leaders Program is open to early-career librarians. As part of the program presenters with various backgrounds within the NJ library community […]
Ten startups have been selected for the African final of the Latitude59 competition, the winner of which will head to Tallinn, Estonia to pitch at the main event for a prize pool of EUR1 million (US$1.1 million). The 12th edition of Latitude59, Estonia’s flagship startup and tech event, was held in Tallinn in May, and […]
Jersey City Free Public Library (JCFPL) proudly shares that Devon Allan, Emerging Technologies Librarian at Communipaw Branch Library, has been selected for the New Jersey Library Association Emerging Leaders Program (NJLA). The Emerging Leaders Program is open to early career librarians. As part of the program presenters with various backgrounds within the NJ library community, […]
LARKSPUR, CA — Retired Col. Luke R. Donohue will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Veterans Day ceremony at the Marin County Fairgrounds, the county announced Thursday. Donohue, a Larkspur resident, began a 33-year Army career in 1989, serving leadership roles with Special Forces, Rangers, and infantry units during several major operations around the […]
U.S. director Jeff Nichols – whose “The Bikeriders” recently made a splash at Cannes and Telluride – is set to be the official patron of the upcoming Marrakech International Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops that will see him mentoring selected projects in various stages from the Middle East and North Africa. Launched in 2018, the Atlas […]