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Three Lessons On Using Technology To Advance Maternal Health

Anna Frellsen is the CEO of Maternity Foundation. She has a background with McKinsey&Company, an MBA from IESE and sits on multiple boards. getty During the pandemic, some countries in Africa saw increases in maternal mortality rates. Moving forward, I think we can expect to see increased mortality rates in other low- and middle-income countries. […]

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Lessons From the Retro-Future of the Internet

Sign up for Charlie’s newsletter, Galaxy Brain, here. Here is my confession: I’m traumatized by a David Letterman clip. It’s from November 1995, and Letterman’s guest is a young, bespectacled Bill Gates. The video starts with a question from the legendary late-night host: “What about this internet thing?” he asks. “What the hell is that, […]

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Kazakhstan’s internet shutdown offers lessons on how to survive an internet blackout

Читайте эту статью на русском. With over 60,000 subscribers on Telegram and close to 20,000 on Instagram, Narikbi Maksut was used to a constant flurry of notifications. When his phone went silent, he knew something had gone wrong.  “At first I thought they had just blocked the internet, but they had literally turned it off,” […]

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