📸Enrique Pimoulier Who may enterThe 28th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award competition is open to 18 years or older amateur and professional photographers of any nationality. Deadline4 October 2024 Short descriptionThe competition is organized by Médicos del Mundo Spain. Each entrant must submit a series of between 5 (minimum) and 10 (maximum) photographs. ” The submitted images must narrate a story related to one of these topics: health, natural disasters, humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, violation of human rights, armed conflicts, vulnerable groups, refugee and/or migrant populations. At least 50% of the images must have been taken between 2023 and 2024.…
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“H.E. Dr. Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi, President of the Saudi Data & AI Authority, delivers opening speech at the Global AI Summit in Riyadh” The third Global AI Summit (GAIN Summit), hosted by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), commenced today in Riyadh. The event, holding from September 10 to 12, 2024, at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center, is under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. GAIN 2024 – the third edition of the summit – will explore pivotal themes, such as Generative AI, AI in urban life, and…
Ayobami Oyaleke (co-Founder & CEO, Mainstack) Ayobami Oyaleke, co-Founder of Mainstack, is thrilled to officially announce his company’s expansion into the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧Mainstack, based in Dallas, Texas is the platform for creators, businesses, and entrepreneurs to receive payments for their products and services in 135+ currencies. By providing multi-currency pricing solutions, billing, subscription management, and a tax compliance infrastructure, Mainstack ensures that companies can be local yet act globally. Referring to the development, Oyaleke says: This is a significant milestone in our journey toward becoming a merchant of record (MoR), empowering ambitious businesses with software and payment solutions to…
FinTribe Fuunder, Jennifer Awirigwe, invites women across Africa to the FInTribe Finance Fair It’s that time of the year again, and the FinTribe Finance Fair – an exclusive women-only trade event – will be taking place on October 14, 2024 at the Landmark Event Centre in Lagos-Nigeria. The trade fair presents a fluid platform for attendees to interact and connect one-on-one with financial experts in several areas of financial services including savings, investments, Real Estate, Pension, Insurance, Cryptocurrency and much more. The theme? ‘Becoming the Bag’, which points to a milieu for not just gaining insights, but also making decisive…
Alexander Zanders (Founder & CEO, UfarmX) UfarmX – an Agritech company utilising blockchain technology to empower 3,000 smallholder farmers across Nigeria, Senegal, and Liberia – are excited to share that they have been selected, amongst 23 other startups, to join the Techstars Chicago Ai 2024 Cohort Powered by J.P. Morgan! Described as promising, early-stage companies that are building disruptive emerging technologies in the realms of Artificial Intelligence and Deeptech, the 24 companies selected for the 2024 class of Techstars Chicago Powered by J.P. Morgan are: Airsafe AI is revolutionizing drone operations by providing a comprehensive DAA solution. Auribus is allowing music makers…
🎥Paralympics With Paris 2024 drawing to a close, some of the Paralympic community say a few words of thanks to Paris and its people: ‘MERCI!’ [in different accents and languages 😊] What a spectacle: The 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony kicks off at Stade de France And for an unforgettable event that has marked a first gender-inclusive Olympics hosted by the beautiful city of Paris, the world says bravo to Anne Hidalgo (Mayor of Paris); Tony Estanguet (President, Paris 2024 – Comité d’organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024); and Etienne Thobois (Director-General, Paris Organising Committee). Numeris Média is officially…
UNSTOPPABLE 🇳🇬. Folashade Oluwafemiayo beats her own power lifting world record on final day of Paralympic Games🎥@Paralympics Nigeria is unstoppable. On the final day of the 2024 Paris Paralympics, Folashade Oluwafemiayo has obliterated her own previous 165kg world record with an incredible 167kg lift, securing gold in the Women’s Over 86kg Para powerlifting category🏅 Nigeria’s medal haul now stands at a total of seven (see story on previous six wins: Paris2024: Good things do come to an end. Nigeria’s never-give-up trait earns it six medals as the Paralympics draw to a close 🙌]. Folashade Oluwafemiayo lifts Paralympic gold!After breaking both…
📸2024 Getty Images Despite no-one wanting Paris 2024 to come to an end, the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games will bring the curtain down on 12 days of intense sporting activity in France’s capital, on Sunday 8 September, starting at 20:30 local time. After nearly two weeks of competition and jaw-dropping feats of athleticism, the medal table tells a story of grit: So far, throughout the Paralympics’ 549 medal events, China tops the table in terms of gold medals (71) and total medals (163). After Great Britain (82 total, 35 golds), Team USA athletes have brought home 77 medals in all, including 27 golds.…
Founder at the Ecobarter company – Rita Idehai Rita Idehai is a geoscientist turned social entrepreneur whose vision is to ensure that every urban household across Nigeria gets connected to a sustainable waste management platform. As founder at Ecobarter – a sustainable waste management company – Rita consistently works to help entrepreneurs and organisations make social impact where it matters the most. In a recent LinkedIn post, Rita shares the groundbreaking capabilities of the reverse vending machine – a machine that allows insertion of recyclable material in exchange for a reward – locally and proudly built by her team. Twenty…
The Olympic cauldron 🎥 Paris 2024 – Comité d’organisation des Jeux Olympiques As the thrilling 2024 Paris Paralympic Games come to an end, Team Nigeria have hauled in a total of six medals as at the penultimate day (Saturday, September 07), while hoping to secure two additional medals on the final day in their last two para-powerlifting events today, Sunday. The country’s medal tally table currently looks like this: 📸NigeriaOlympic The sensational Mariam Eniola Bolaji set the pace by being the first to make a mark for Nigeria on the medals table. She claimed the Para badminton bronze medal in the women’s SL3 category. …