"In Africa, Y Combinator is known to be a major backer of most of the continent’s well-known startups." Read about YC W21's African startups: techcrunch.com/2021/03/23/mos…

The West should not fall in self-compassion now and pretend there's nothing it can do to help Ukraine. Give us military, financial, humanitarian assistance. Impose nuclear sanctions on Russia. Kick it out from international organizations. Think out of the box. Time to act is now

Are you a researcher working on #DataGovernance & #DataStewardship? We Mozilla are looking for people to help us research the implementation of alternative approaches to data governance in 🇩🇪, 🇮🇳, 🇰🇪 & 🇺🇸! Check out the call for proposals⬇️ foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/legal-…

alkags.me/barriers-citiz… I have been thinking about some of the barriers to #CitizenEngagement and participation. It occurs to me that we built many apps and platforms and we forgot humans. Aidan Eyakuze David Sasaki Sarah T Lucas @TomOrrell86 Jackie Mungai Oliver Kagwe 🇰🇪 @alvinbabji

We're recruiting 3x dream roles Ada Lovelace Institute - want to lead our programme on public sector data and algorithms, or be a senior visiting researcher on climate or gender & AI? Come join us👇 adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/jobs/

My tech, design and research community in the UK - a super exciting opportunity for impact to help The Health Foundation scope a new funding programme to support the use of technology to enable new models of care. Closing on the 20th of April.

Breaking: the Dutch Parliament just passed a GroenLinks D66 vote on mandatory fundamental rights impact assessments for AI used in decision-making about people. Great work Kauthar Bouchallikht! This will also make the Netherlands the first in Council to fight for this in the 🇪🇺 AI Act.

📢 #VACANCY | We are looking for AI researchers with an interest in influencing policies and practices in Africa. More details here: bit.ly/3NZe2ze Due: 30 April 2022 #Hiring #Africanopportunities #AI4D

#Zambia will be a hub of innovation, modern development and opportunity at the heart of our region. We are proud to see more young people dreaming big and taking charge. #ZambiaKuChalo #aBetterFuture

Excited to open our first product development center in Africa later this year. We're hiring engineers, product managers, UX designers and researchers in Nairobi who want to build helpful products and services for people in Africa and around the world. africa.googleblog.com/2022/04/were-h…

1/2 🚨 Only 5 days left to apply for this fantastic new role in Amnesty Tech's Algorithmic Accountability Lab! We're recruiting a Senior Investigative Data Scientist, a brand new function at Amnesty International. careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/senior…

We already know little about how Twitter handles content moderation or how their algorithms work, and taking the company private makes it likely we will know less. What we do know is this: two billionaires will now control four of the major digital public sphere platforms.

Meet African Union Civic Tech Fellow Courteney: "I am excited to represent @justice_code at re:publica! Networking with key players in the #civictech space joining and also contributing to the start-up ecosystem in Berlin and Africa." #rp22 African Union Youth Program GIZ African Union

Super excited to be back to Berlin for re:publica and to have spent 3 days discussing all things digital society. And to see advocates like @frederike.bsky.social' speak - 'Let's not give agency to AI. AI makes no decisions itself - they are made by people who design it.' #rf22

Last weeks all-female #exchange on overcoming barriers in #Zambia’s male-dominated #techsector organized by GIZ & BongoHive! Thanks to @Zanaco for hosting & #WiT-Network for connecting these inspiring women!🇩🇪supports the promotion of equality on the labor market! 💪🙂

Calling all young people in Zambia passionate about justice, technology and/or entrepreneurship! Join our course to get an introduction into the Legal Tech landscape and learn how to develop digital products using no code tools. No previous coding experience required!

We are hiring! Available positions: ▪️ Entrepreneurship Lead ▪️ Marketing and Communications Lead Visit our website to apply: bongohive.co.zm/careers/ Deadline: Sunday, 18th September 2022.

Starting Day 3 of our Mobile App Development training, and already beyond impressed by our participants - so many great things in the making. Can't wait to see the final outcome! #legaltech #techforgood Swalisano Advisory Derrick ＫΛ Ｍ ΛＮＤΛ Nicaise Y. Uwimana Rachel Tia

And it's a wrap! Beyond proud of this incredible and fun group who joined us at the Mobile App Development training using #nocode and #lowcode tools and worked hard over the 5 days to create advanced prototypes of #legaltech solutions 🙌🏻

🌐 It's the final day of our intensive 2-day workshop with Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. We've been hard at work crafting a roadmap for our Ministry's strategic plan & vision. Today, we bring it all together as we set our sights on a tech-driven future📡. #Transform #Empower #Connect