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Today our guests are Stephen Barrera and Scott Simpson, attorneys for BRCK Criminal Defense. https://www.brckdefense.com/ We will be discussing how to stay out of trouble and how to stay safe during San Antonio’s 2025 Fiesta, including myths about avoiding criminal charges and convictions for DWI, drug possession, and assault. Then we will discuss case studies of someone who was charged, plead no contest or convicted of a crime and changed their life from sinner to saint. Finally, we will talk about legacies including how someone could leave an inheritance with conditions or restrictions to incentivize sobriety and employment. The mission of Talk Law Radio is to help you discover your legal issue blind spots by listening to me talk about the law on the radio. The state bar of Texas is the state agency that governs attorney law licenses. The State Bar wants attorneys to inform the public about the law but does not want us to attempt to solve your individual legal problems upon the basis of general information. Instead, contact an attorney like Todd A. Marquardt at Marquardt Law Firm, P.C. to discuss your specific facts and circumstances of your unique situation. Leave a legacy that makes a positive impact on people's lives Chat online at MarquardtLawFirm.com to schedule an appointment to help you create a legally enforceable last will, living trust, or tax protected inheritance plan. Tell a friend what this show is about discovering hidden legal issue blind spots like in business and estates and elder law. Today's hidden legal issue blind spot is "Citizenship." Subscribe to the Talk Law Radio YouTube channel to watch the show in four separate segments. Like & Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/@talklawradio3421 Listen here! www.TalkLawRadio.com Work with Todd! https://marquardtlawfirm.com/ Join attorney Todd Marquardt every week for exciting law talk on Talk Law Radio!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Erik Hersman, CEO of Gridless, joins Josh and Dan to discuss how Bitcoin mining can improve Africa. Erik is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and led several successful companies, including iHub and BRCK. He is now the CEO of Gridless, a company that is using Bitcoin mining to improve access to electricity in rural Africa. In this conversation, Erik discusses the challenges of providing electricity to rural Africa and how Bitcoin mining can help to address these challenges. This is an important conversation for anyone who is interested in the future of Bitcoin and its potential to improve the lives of people around the world. Other topics covered include: African life Bitcoin assisting energy generation Dan's experience with prison wallets How Gridless is improving African grids How energy waste can be monetized Lifting Africa without a handout BCB Pod disclaimer here Watch video of this chat on YouTube here ITEMS MENTIONED: Gridless iHub BRCK Ushahidi SHOW SPONSORS: BITCOIN 2024: promo code “BCB24” for 10% off tickets early bird ticket sales for Nashville, July 25-27, 2024 b.tc/conference SWAN — The place we choose to buy Bitcoin. Dollar cost average daily, weekly or monthly with a company that's Bitcoin only and encourages you to hold your own private keys. Visit Swan.com. For Swan PREMIUM FREE go to https://www.swanbitcoin.com/premium/blue-collar-bitcoin-experience-swan-premium-for-free/ and use PASSWORD: bluecollarbitcoin COINKITE — PROMO CODE “BCB” for discount on ColdCard. Industry leaders in Bitcoin security hardware and fun devices, makers of the COLDCARD and other prominent items including opendime, satscard, tapsigner, the seedplate, coldpower, blockclock mini & blockclock micro. All available at coinkite.com START9 — Sovereign computing. Take back control of your data. Run a Bitcoin & Lightning node. Embassy One: A small uncompromising personal server, capable of running BTC Core. Embassy Pro: The most powerful, secure, and reliable private server in the world. Visit Start9.com CROWDHEALTH BTC — Use CODE BLUE to get 1st 3 months massively reduced at $99/month. Harness the Power of Bitcoin + Health Care. Join other Bitcoiners on a crowdfunding platform while accumulating Bitcoin in the process. Bitcoin specific crowd joincrowdhealth.com/bitcoin SUPPORT THE BCB PODCAST: Podcast 2.0 streaming on our favorite pod app, Fountain: You can earn & stream sats on Lightning Network while listening to pods! Also share and listen to standout clips with the Fountain community. SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: you can follow us @blue_collarbtc, follow Erik @whiteafrican Blue Collar Bitcoin on NOSTR: npub1a3hrd4wfawr578d5y5l0qgmh7lx8q6tumfq0h7eymmttt52veexqkcfg37 Video on YouTube, Subscribe Here EMAIL: Send questions or comments to bluecollarbitcoinpodcast@gmail.com

Corey Brock of The Athletic joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about the Mariners lost series against Houston last weekend, the team trading for starting pitcher Luis Castillo from the Reds and if they overpaid, and all the injury situations for the M's.

Ishuah Kariuki is a software engineer at Microsoft. We talk about what it was like growing up in Kenya, the struggle of learning about computers with limited access to them, changing jobs as a means for career advancement, and more. Connect with Ishuah:Website: https://ishuah.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ishuah_LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishuah/Mentioned in today's episode:Microsoft Expanding in Africa: https://news.microsoft.com/en-xm/features/furthering-our-investment-in-africa-microsoft-opens-first-africa-development-centre-in-kenya-and-nigeria/Windows 3.0: https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_3.0Radio Africa Group: https://radioafricagroup.co.ke/BRCK: https://brck.com/Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/?utm_source=YTpodcast&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=alpLive Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/?utm_source=YTpodcast&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=alpBlog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs 

Kettle COO, Nathaniel Manning, talks about balancing risk in a changing climate, structure without bureaucracy, evolution by design, good decision making, the social contract of insurance, and sitting on a monastery cushion for 3 months. He also talks about old guard vs new guard, building the plane while it's flying, making the implicit explicit, and evolution by design.Nathaniel has a long career of founding and leading companies including Fellow Robots, BRCK, the largest provider of public wifi in Africa, and Ushahidi the world's largest open-source platform for crisis response. Along the way, he worked on furthering clean energy as part of the Clinton Climate Initiative at the Clinton Foundation, and Nathaniel was part of the Obama Administration's first class of Presidential Innovation Fellow where he was special advisor on open data at USAID, the world's premier international development agency, where he went on to become the Chief Data Officer.With that kind of track record, it's safe to say that Nathaniel puts his money where his mouth is when it comes to creating technological solutions to some of the world's biggest problems. Nathaniel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanielmanning/Kettle: https://ourkettle.com/Episode Website: https://betweentwocoos.com/kettle-coo-nathaniel-manningMichael Koenig on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mkoenig514 

MLOps Coffee Sessions #68 with Chris Albon, Wikimedia MLOps co-hosted by Neal Lathia. // Abstract // Bio Chris spent over a decade applying statistical learning, artificial intelligence, and software engineering to political, social, and humanitarian efforts. He is the Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation. Previously, Chris was the Director of Data Science at Devoted Health, Director of Data Science at the Kenyan startup BRCK, cofounded the AI startup Yonder, created the data science podcast Partially Derivative, was the Director of Data Science at the humanitarian non-profit Ushahidi, and was the director of the low-resource technology governance project at FrontlineSMS. Chris also wrote Machine Learning For Python Cookbook (O'Reilly 2018) and created Machine Learning Flashcards. Chris earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Davis researching the quantitative impact of civil wars on health care systems. He earned a B.A. from the University of Miami, where he triple majored in political science, international studies, and religious studies. // Relevant Links --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, Feature Store, Machine Learning Monitoring and Blogs: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Neal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nlathia/ Connect with Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisralbon/

Arguably the most important step in digital and financial inclusion is getting people online in the first place. The largest provider of free public wifi in sub-Saharan Africa is BRCK, a truly remarkable Kenyan start-up that has grown from its revolutionary first BRCK v1 to a SupaBRCK to connect rural villages in Rwanda to its brilliant Moja free public wifi. Co-founder Erik Hersman, who also co-launched renowned tech firm Ushahidi and the iHub in Nairobi, tells Stuff Studios editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak about why the internet should always be free. Read more on Stuff Studios.

Podcast: The Wall Street AnalyzerEpisode: Clear Blue Technologies International's (TSXV: CBLU) CEO Miriam Tuerk talks about their Smart-Off Grid TechnologyPub date: 2019-02-08Clear Blue Technologies International(TSXV: CBLU)CEO: Miriam Tuerk INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS: WSA: Good day from Wall Street, this is Juan Costello, Senior Analyst with the Wall Street Analyzer. Joining us today is Miriam Tuerk, CEO and Co-Founder of Clear Blue Technologies. The company trades on a TSX Venture, ticker symbol CBLU. Thanks for joining us today, Miriam. Miriam Tuerk: Very pleased to spend some time with you. WSA: Sure. Please start off by providing us with an overview of the company for some of our listeners here today that are new to your story. Miriam Tuerk: Well, let me start first of all with what our products are all about. We have a patented Smart-Off Grid technology, and we use that technology to remotely manage, monitor, and control the power of IoT devices anywhere in the world 24/7. So, say for example, you have a telecom tower or a light pole powered by a solar panel or a wind turbine and a battery. Our smart controller communicates wirelessly in real-time to send our cloud-based system critical data, and through that we have a management technology platform as well as a service team that allows us to manage, monitor and control that power anywhere in the world today. One of the best features in our products is that we can predict how the system is going to perform through the weather. For instance, in the City of Hamilton, Ontario, over the next week we might have very bad weather, and we need to manage through a low-power period. Similarly, if you're dealing with a very hot place in Africa, you could have a period of time where the weather is very, very hot and you need to manage power through it. So our unique technology makes the systems resilient, reliable and eliminates the need for locally trained resources, in order to allow us to provide mission critical uptime power for infrastructure all over the world. We generate revenue in two ways. Firstly, we provide energy-as-a-service. We manage, monitor and operate the systems for our customers on an ongoing recurring revenue basis around the world. And because they want guaranteed performance, they ask us to provide them with the best technology in-system. So, in addition to our controller and power electronics technology, we provide an entire power solution with the best batteries, the best solar panels and systems, and that's the second form of our revenue. We're geographically diverse. We have customers in 35 countries around the world in more than 20 states in the US and eight Canadian provinces. And globally our systems have been installed to power controlled lighting, security cameras, cell phone towers, including sites inEurope, the Middle East, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. WSA: So bring us of the speed there on some of your most recent news and activities. You just had a project there in North Dakota and one in Toronto? Miriam Tuerk: Yeah, so in January we announced our deployment of our solution across North Dakota with the Department of Transportation there. Many people would be familiar with the Humbolt tragedy that happened in Canada last year at a rural intersection, and so the safety and reliability of lighting at rural intersections to eliminate bad car accidents is the key motivation for this. And the Department of Transport in North Dakota selected us to provide 50 systems at 50 rural intersections across the state. We also just announced 40 street lights along Bloor Street West in Toronto. Bloor Street West is kind of like the Greenwich Village of Toronto and very nice neighborhood. We're powering street lights, security cameras and Wi-Fi hotspots in that area. That's an exciting project for us because cost savings versus going to the grid was quite significant. The City of Toronto said that they thought it would cost $35,000 per pole to connect to the grid, and with us they were saving more than $30,000 per pole with an off-grid solution. We also announced our new product line for lithium batteries in the last month. And last year, we had a number of huge telecom announcements. We’ve been selected as the smart off-grid power service and solution company for the Telecom Infra Project, founded by Facebook, among others. We announced our partnership with BRCK to provide off-grid power to thousands of hotspots and communication spots in Africa. We also announced a big partnership with Telefónica. They have a program called Internet para Todos, which aims to connect 100 million people to cell networks. Telefónica is one of the top five telecom companies in the world, with €54 billion in annual revenue. And this is going to allow them to expand their network by a material percentage and grow their business. And then lastly, we were listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in November, and then we had a couple of other smaller announcements. WSA: So what are some of the main goals and milestones that you're looking at here over the course of the next six to 12 months? Miriam Tuerk: So we've already achieved a number of key milestones. As of Q3 2018, we had installed more than 3350 systems worldwide. We listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. And our trailing fourth quarter revenues ended September 30th of last year with just under $4.5 million, which was almost 300% increase over the revenue of the same period of the previous year. So we are starting to move up the hockey stick in terms of recurring revenue and one-time revenue—we're doubling our revenue every year right now. And we've also laid in place a number of key partnerships, including our collaboration with the Telecom Infra Project, which was founded by Facebook, Intel, Nokia, SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom. And that initiative which have got billions of dollars of investments from more than 400 companies around the world is planning on bringing the next billion people online and in order to do that they need power. From a forward-looking perspective, we're seeking selective opportunities to grow in different geographic marketplaces. We see some exciting things happening in South America as a result of our work we're doing with Telefónica in Peru and that will still grow. We see a lot of potential for this technology in Southeast Asia and other emerging markets. We hope to grow our partnership with Vanu out of Rwanda, and then potentially to places like India. And we're also starting to move and transition our revenue model to more and more increasing recurring revenue and a subscription based service. Already today, every customer we sell to has a recurring revenue service management contract with us where we manage and operate the systems. And our plan is to grow our recurring revenue significantly because that delivers value to the customer and value to our shareholders. WSA: Sure, what is the current market opportunity regarding the solar panel lighting and what makes you uniquely position there to capitalize and grab market share? Miriam Tuerk: So, the interesting thing about the power grid today is that it has not changed in over 100 years. It's pretty much the same as what Tesla and Westinghouse were building over a 100 years ago. Big central power generation and then a big mass of distribution networks is kind of what the telecom industry looked like 30 years ago. So when you look at the telecom industry, you used to have this monopolistic control of a slow-moving industry. There was one phone per household in North America, and one out of every 10 homes in an emerging market might have had a phone. AT&T and the RBACs and they had to try to break them up to try to introduce some disruption and get that industry moving forward. With the movement from grid telecom to wireless telecom all of a sudden, you had huge explosion in the number of wireless devices out there. Now everybody in the emerging markets has wireless telecommunications in many different places. And in the Western markets you have, say, five cell phones in the house. So the market grew significantly. From a capital markets perspective we went from AT&T, which was a low-valued monopolistic company not moving forward to significant disruption, innovation and competition. And so today you have T-Mobile, Verizon Mobile and Virgin Mobile who are all new entrants into the marketplace that have grabbed big market share. The power industry is about to go through exactly that same disruption. And the reason is because of solar technology. It’s not because solar is green that is a great benefit and a key value, but it's because our solar cell is 2 inches in size. And so if you do a big central generation station for water for hydro, for example, you have to build a huge generating station. But if you’re building a solar plant you’re taking millions of little solar cells and you're putting them in a central solar farm. The problem is $.40 of solar in a farm cost you another $.60 of cabling and distribution so that you're paying a buck for that solar at the streetlight pole or at the cell phone tower or at the security camera or at your house. But if you now take that $0.40 of solar and you put it at the streetlight, it costs you $.40 instead of the dollar. And so this fundamental economic shift. And the fact that it’s not a three year or a five year investment, it's a one-time cost savings, is driving this massive rollout. The City of Toronto at Bloor West Village estimated that it was going to cost them $35,000 per pole to connect that pole to the grid. Even though it was right in downtown Toronto right on the side of the sidewalk power is only 20, 30 feet away — but it's 20, 30 feet through concrete through rights-of-way, through roadways and through buildings and so very expensive. And instead of spending $35,000 they spent about $5,000 for the solar off-grid power. So that huge and compelling change also introduces competition. Now, all of a sudden, when the City of Hamilton wants to put in a wind streetlight down the street or a Wi-Fi hotspot somewhere they have more choices than just their local power utility. And so through that we believe over the next five to 10 years the world is going to go wireless power. We're aiming to become the leading energy-as-a-service company that's managing and operating those systems for the City of Toronto, the City of Hamilton, Telefónica and any other customer around the world, as that's where the business opportunity is. WSA: You were able to increase your revenues last quarter by over 280%. What are some of the key drivers there that you believe investors should be aware of about the company? Miriam Tuerk: The key driver is that in the Western markets, like North America, and in mission critical infrastructure, we've been able to prove to our customers how systems work and that they are operating well. So if you’re in Long Island, New York, and you've got these smart off-grid solar streetlights on a new roadway, we're able to show that we can make it through a Nor'Easter. We can make it through a rainstorm, if there's shading, or a new tree is growing, and here is how the systems perform. And because of that, we have built significant confidence in our products. And through that confidence we're starting to get everybody. So last fall we were able to announce that some traction in the Ontario market, we now have more than 18 municipalities in Southern Ontario. Everyone is starting to use it, because they have experienced our energy-as-a-service, and the proof of the experience of these systems work. And then when you look at things like the Telecom Infra Project. Two years ago, we did not have any telecommunications projects and systems. We did our first project with Vanu from the Bose family in the middle of 2017 about a year and a half ago, and within 18 months we went from 0% revenue, to 10% of total revenue in Q3 2018. And so in emerging markets and Western markets, and in both verticals (our lighting street infrastructure and our telecom cell phone tower business), we are growing significantly. And as we know, if we get into other verticals and deploy globally, the growth path is quite strong for us. WSA: Sure, and perhaps you can walk us through your background and experience Miriam and talk about who the key management team there is? Miriam Tuerk: So the company was founded by myself, John Tuerk, who is our Chief Power Officer and Mark Windrim who is our Chief Technology Officer. We started the company in my basement in 2011 and we all came from technical backgrounds in energy and in IT. We wanted to use our expertise to create something that could facilitate clean power, that with both low-cost and reliable enough to be installed for critical systems. We wanted to build a company that wasn’t dependent upon some of these, but was really going to be compelling from a business value proposition and solved the bigger problem. There is a huge opportunity for growth in this market. As our world becomes increasingly digitalized, we see growth in the Internet of Things, but the energy demand for these high-tech devices is actually decreasing. Through the growth of all of these smart devices we're going to have things such as safer railway infrastructures that have more braking systems to prevent train disrailment, and we have dark rural intersections which will reduce the risk of car accidents. All of that demand creates a significant opportunity to deliver something mission critical that's a key part of our safety and our infrastructure, and that can be cost beneficial with off-grid renewable energy. And because of this, we think the smart off-grid power in both the developed and the emerging world is going to explode, and it’s going to become the dominant power solution. I think that five to 10 years from now, in the same way that I would never think of putting a phone on my desk, I just use cellular phones, I'm going to not even think about wiring every streetlight or every telecom tower to the grid. It’s going to take over the emerging market very quickly. And as the developed world replaces their infrastructure and rolls out new IoT projects, like 5G which needs new telecom systems installed every few hundred feet. So it's a massive infrastructure rollout, and powering that through solar off-grid and eliminating the cable destruction is really where the market is going to go. WSA: Right, so once again joining us today is Miriam Tuerk, the CEO and Founder for Clear Blue Technologies. The company trades on the TSX venture, ticker symbol CBLU. And before we conclude here Miriam to recap some of your key points, why do you believe investors should consider the company as a good investment opportunity today? Miriam Tuerk: So with our growth strategy of geographic expansion, greater penetration in the global industry verticals and continued expansion into new industry and new vertical we believe that 2019 is going to be a breakout year for Clear Blue. Key pilot projects with new, very large customers that we announced last year like BRCK and Telefónica are a major focus for our team, and they lay the foundation for the future growth that we plan to capitalize on. We are confident that we will deliver long-term shareholder value as the revenues and margins grow as we grow our recurring revenue base. Clear Blue really at the start line. The market opportunity is huge and the telecom marketplace just shows you what happens when you have that type of transition. The time is now. Things are moving very quickly. We’re the first company in the sector, so we are the first market, we have a market leadership position. And with Facebook selecting us as the smart off-grid partner in the marketplace, they told us that they had talked to every major power company. I don’t want to list them, but they had gone to many of the top ones you'd think of when you talk about power technology, and no one had what we had built from a capability perspective. And then also we already have a huge footprint of existing customers. We have systems in 35 countries around the world and a proven proper hub, referenceable track record with many cities, many governments, many municipalities and many telcos. We've demonstrated that this is a great opportunity and that we can deliver on that opportunity to ultimately deliver great results to our shareholders, investors and our customers and other stakeholders. WSA: Well, we certainly look forward to continue and to track the company's growth and report on your upcoming progress, and we like to thank you for taking the time to join us today there Miriam and update our registered audience on CBLU. It was great having you on. Miriam Tuerk: Thanks so much for showing some interest in what we're doing.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Wall Street Analyzer, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Poverty is a challenge facing over one billion people across the globe so, as far as challenges go, this is a big one. So big, it will take a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional set of solutions involving banking, food production, internet access and more. All across the developing world, inspired trailblazers are finding innovative ways to use technology new and old to help lift people out of poverty. Featuring solution builders like William Kamkwamba, Angus Deaton, Ram Kiran Dhulipala, Ken Njoroge, Nivi Sharma and Alexandria Lafci.For more on the podcast go to delltechnologies.com/trailblazers

Nivi Sharma is the COO of BRCK and a co-founder of eLimu that was later acquired, the first company to digitize the Kenyan Primary School curriculum for revision and literacy. She spent the last 7 years or so of her career to developing EdTech solutions in emerging markets, specifically Kenya, Africa and reaching emerging markets in Latin America. Through her work which is quite on site, immersed in the realities as well, since the work is mainly in remote areas, Nivi aims to give access to the internet to 800 million Africans who currently don't have access, primarily for children education but also businesses.

Erik Hersman, co-founder and CEO of BRCK (a 'backup generator for the internet'), technologist, investor, writer, Marine, and advocate of technological and entrepreneurial innovation in Africa, joins Michael on the podcast today. “I like solving big problems, and there’s big problems to solve.” - Erik HersmanThey discussed Erik’s amazing life growing up in South Sudan and Kenya, the surprisingly difficult cultural transition he faced when moving back to the United States for college, and his spectacular entrepreneurial career.Erik is an incredibly humble man, particularly for someone who has accomplished so much in his life. He displays a quiet kind of grit, one that’s infectious in a different way than we usually see from the flashy and charismatic leaders of Instagram. But make no mistake, Erik is an absolute world-class leader.In this episode Michael and Erik talked about:What Betting on Yourself means to himThe culture shock of moving from Africa to AmericaHis drive to build his own companyWhat it takes to build something meaningfulFacing failure, then going at it againHow COVID affected his businessWhat drew him to entrepreneurshipHow he looks for opportunitiesThe immense talent that’s waiting for the world in AfricaThe future of technology in AfricaThe absolute necessity of entrepreneurshipIf you're a fan of the show don’t forget to follow to hear new episodes and Rate or Review us wherever you tune in!To ask a question, read the transcript, or learn more, visit MichaelRedd.com.Resources:Erik Hersman on TwitterMichael Redd on Instagram

SFG12 - Nat Manning, CEO of KettleNathaniel is the co-founder and COO of Kettle, a machine-learning-powered reinsurer that protects people from increasing climate change crises. Nathaniel previously led Ushahidi, the world's largest open source data platform for crisis response. There he helped scale the Ushahidi platform to over 200 countries gathering over 10M first hand reports. Previous to that he was a Presidential Innovation Fellow for Open Data, and then the first Chief Data Officer of the US Agency for International Development, where he helped open up and analyze large data sets for humanitarian response. He has been part of the founding teams of technology startups like BRCK and FellowAI and is on the board of Project Wayfinder.Nathaniel joins me today to discuss his path from Ushahidi to forming his own company, Kettle. We learn more about crowdsourcing information and why Ushahidi's timing was fruitful. Nathaniel shares with us the types of funding that Usahidi looked into and the benefits and pitfalls of each. I ask him for his input on how would he change the funding system for tech nonprofits. Nathaniel speaks to how his time with the government at USAID prepared him for the CEO role at Ushahidi. We also learn about Nathaniel's passion for insurance and the beauty of insurance in its purest form.“That's the impact you're really making is that sort of financial safety net there to let people who get hurt from these, acts of God, whether it's a hurricane or a fire, which, like I said, sadly, or there's only more and more of that they're protected, and that our communities are protected.” - Nathaniel ManningToday on Startups for Good we cover:How Ushahidi fostered creativity amongst the employeesThe challenges of running a big tech non-profit Building business development teamsDealing with misconduct in leadership as a CEOConnect with Nathaniel on Twitter or Kettle's website and his own personal website Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes!Thanks for tuning into today's episode of Startups For Good with your host, Miles Lasater. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a rating and review on your favorite podcast listening app.Don't forget to visit our website, connect with Miles on Twitter or LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. For more information about The Giving Circle

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In Episode 8, Zoe Hamilton (Insights Manager at GSMA), Mark Kamau (Head User Experience Designer at BRCK) and Aline Alonso (Design Researcher at Butterfly Works) discuss methodologies for inclusivity in humanitarian assistance. Specifically, the panel discuss a Human-Centred Design project in Nairobi working with persons with disabilities, and the adaptations they had to make due to COVID-19 disruptions. Find out more about the project at: www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/HCDreport For more information on the methodology email: m4h@gsma.com Find out more about the M4H programme at: www.gsma.com/m4h This initiative is currently funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and supported by the GSMA and its members.

In the second part of Nivi's interview, we look at BRCK, what she does now, the opportunity education is missing in Kenya and Africa in general and why nothing is built better for Africa to help leapfrog the world of yesterday like the internet. Are we doing what we should with it or are we just being bums?Music: Sun El Musician: Ntaba Ezikunde (feat. Simmy)

The man leading BRCK, a team of dedicated individuals trying to connect Africa to the internet. BRCK is a rugged wireless WiFi device designed and engineered in Kenya for use throughout the emerging markets. He is also a co-founder of iHub, Nairobi's innovation hub for the tech community, and co-founder of Ushahidi, the free and open-source software for crowdsourcing crisis information.—Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2019.Watch Erik's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/erik-hersman-its-possible-to-do-hard-things-in-difficult-places

They say that the difference between the US and Africa is that the US has competition while Africa has complexity. And a big reason for its complexity is a lack of infrastructure.It compels many startups to build infrastructure, invest in other market-making activities and/or to diversify earlier in their journey to make their businesses work. How are startups across the continent building sustainable businesses in this environment?2:57 - Kasha's Joanna Bichsel10:56 - MAX.ng's Tayo Bamiduro & Chinedu Azodoh18:17 - BRCK's Erik Hersman23:06 - Hello Tractor's Jehiel Oliver32:07 - a conversation between Justin and The Flip's b-mic, Sayo Folawiyo. 

Google’s offering up to $1.5m to anyone who can identify bugs in its new chip for Android smartphones. This is a especially high reward but Google’s just one of a host of big well-known companies running bug hunting programmes. But is this the best way for big business to protect its new tech? AI in Africa Does Africa need a different approach to AI – yes according to Professor Alan Blackwell of the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University in England. He’s just started a sabbatical year across Africa working with AI experts – we spoke to him on the first leg of his trip at the Bahir Institute of Technology (BIT) in the North West of Ethiopia. Wi-fi on the bus Being online when travelling on the bus in parts of Kenya and Rwanda is not new, but now it is also possible in parts of South Africa as BRCK launch their public internet service there. Nanotech tracing stolen cars Around 143,000 vehicles worldwide were reported as stolen in 2018 according to Interpol. In the UK, only half are recovered. Now nanosatellites could be a new tool in retrieving stolen cars. Digital Planet’s Izzie Clarke has more. Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz (Photo: Google webpage. Credit: Getty Images)

Michelle Casbon is back in the host seat with Mark Mirchandani this week as we talk data science with Devoted Health Director of Data Science, Chris Albon. Chris talks with us about what it takes to be a data scientist at Devoted Health and how Devoted Health and machine learning are advancing the healthcare field. Later, Chris talks about the future of Devoted Health and how they plan to grow. They’re hiring! At Devoted Health, they emphasize knowledge, supporting a culture of not just machine learning but people learning as well. Questions are encouraged and assumptions are discouraged in a field where a tiny mistake can change the care a person receives. Because of this, their team members not only have a strong data science background, they also learn the specific nuances of the healthcare system in America, combined with knowledge of the legal and privacy regulations in that space. How did Chris go from Political Science Ph.D. to non-profit data science wizard? Listen in to find out his storied past. Chris Albon Chris Albon is the Director of Data Science at Devoted Health, using data science and machine learning to help fix America’s health care system. Previously, he was Chief Data Scientist at the Kenyan startup BRCK, cofounded the anti-fake news company New Knowledge, created the data science podcast Partially Derivative, led the data team at the humanitarian non-profit Ushahidi’s, and was the director of the low-resource technology governance project at FrontlineSMS. Chris also wrote Machine Learning For Python Cookbook (O’Reilly 2018) and created Machine Learning Flashcards. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Davis researching the quantitative impact of civil wars on health care systems. Chris earned a B.A. from the University of Miami, where he triple majored in political science, international studies, and religious studies. Cool things of the week How Itaú Unibanco built a CI/CD pipeline for ML using Kubeflow blog Why TPUs are so high-performance BFloat16: The secret to high performance on Cloud TPUs blog TPU Codelabs site Benchmarking TPU, GPU, and CPU Platforms for Deep Learning paper Machine Learning Flashcards site Interview Devoted Health site Devoted Health is hiring! site Ushahidi site FrontlineSMS site New Knowledge site Joel Grus: Fizz Buzz in TensorFlow site Snowflake site Periscope Data site Airflow site Kubernetes site Chris Albon’s Website site Partially Derivative podcast Partially Derivative Back Episodes podcast Question of the week Chris Albon To paraphrase: A computer program is said to learn if its performance at specific tasks improves with experience. To find out more, including the definition of a partial derivative, buy a pack of Chris’s flashcards. Who knows, they might help you land your next job. Where can you find us next? Michelle is planning the ML for Developers track for QCon SF on Nov. 13. Mark is staying in San Francisco and just launched two Beyond Your Bill videos: Organizing your GCP resources and Managing billing permissions. Sound Effect Attribution “Small Group Laugh 5” by Tim.Kahn of Freesound.org “Crowd Laugh” by Tom_Woysky of Freesound.org “Transformers Type SFX 2” by HykenFreak of Freesound.org “Approx 800 Laugh” by LoneMonk of Freesound.org “Bad Beep” by RicherLandTV of Freesound.org “C-ClassicalSuspense” by DuckSingle of Freesound.org

This week on the Finding Impact Podcast, we are continuing our second series on hardware entrepreneurs, this one with Mike Hahn of PayGo Energy about his hardware development journey. This is the first episode in our second 3-part series on invention-based entrepreneurs, supported by The Lemelson Foundation. The series aims to provide unique insights into some of the challenges and workarounds faced by entrepreneurs creating hardware products in emerging markets. As many will know, from episode 44 with Mike's Co-Founder Fausto, PayGo Energy has created a smart meter that sits on an LPG gas cylinder, that lets customers pay on a PAYG basis. On this podcast, you will learn: How the idea of PayGo came about: started in 2015 with an observation that, on a daily basis, lots of people were lining up at petrol stations to buy kerosene or diesel fuel for cooking and they were bringing small vessels to carry this fuel home, despite there being a liquified petroleum gas (LPG) option 10 meters away. This spurred our question about why aren't people cooking with LPG? It's clean, fast, and convenient. This idea came about while all of the co-founders were working for different organizations within the informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya.  What their first basic prototype looked like: technical discovery "can we turn gas on and off with a text message?" How their diverse group of co-founders with diverse skill sets helped: technology development, understanding the market/operations, etc. and this blend of personalities and experiences gave them an advantage early on. For their first prototype they used BRCK components (see episode 111 with Erik Hersman, Co-founder of BRCK https://findingimpact.com/fip-111-hardware-entrepreneurs-3-3-creating-a-modem-cum-router-device-aimed-at-solving-last-mile-connectivity-issues-in-africa-with-erik-hersman/)  in order to test how to get some level of accuracy of measuring gas vapor (actual flow) to the stove, and then send that data remotely to a server while including the ability to shut that gas flow off.  Why he uses SolidWorks for designs and recommends GrabCad for downloading files that other people have made based off of the real object. It makes it easy to plug into My Assembly so you can build something around it, and spatially you are in the right ballpark.  Why he decided to buy a 3D printer instead of using 3D printing services: it's incredibly fast and convenient to do it by yourself, especially if you aren't sure how many iterations will be needed, and you're learning about the design as you're making it.  How they raised their seed round: having a physical prototype and a real functioning unit in someone's home along with comprehensive market research and a business modeling effort prepared them for that seed round. Also having a couple backers from very early before the seed round helped instill confidence.  When working with manufacturers it's a good indicator when you get to meet directly with the CEO.  Advice for those in the hardware development process: get yourself into it, fake it until you make it. (But his design background at Rhode Island School of Design also helped.) Don't be afraid to ask for help. Talk to people, work with in the past who are willing to pick up the phone. i.e. how to do contract with a contract manufacturer.  Links to resources: PayGo Energy https://www.paygoenergy.co/  SolidWorks http://www.solidworks.com/  GrabCAD https://grabcad.com/ Connect with Mike: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhahndesign/  Twitter https://twitter.com/paygo_energy?lang=en 

Nivi Sharma is COO of BRCK, a company connecting Africa to the internet. BRCK is at the cutting edge of frontier market technology needs for connectivity, whether that’s for people or things.Nivi is involved because she has dedicated her career to creating digital access for children, youth, and adults. Nivi is passionate about the potential impact the internet can have on the economic and social development for the 800 million Africans who are currently not connected, although they all have devices designed for a digital world.In 2011, Nivi co-founded eLimu, the first company to digitize the Kenyan Primary School curriculum for revision and literacy. Nivi’s other passion is creating children’s playgrounds and enabling connectivity in an analogue way. In this podcast:Why Nivi is passionate about connectivityNivi’s dreams for BRCK and overcoming barriers to connectivityWhy we need to connect in a more meaningful wayThe transformational points in Nivi’s life that have influenced her so farWhy Nivi wants to make the idea of public spaces differentWhy leaders need to listen with an open heart and with empathyThe importance of listening to yourself Why companies should be focusing on integrity and creating valuesNivi’s answer for the world is more love and empathyLinks:www.BRCK.comwww.e-Limu.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is part three of a 3-part series on invention-based entrepreneurs, supported by The Lemelson Foundation. The series aims to provide unique insights into some of the challenges and workarounds faced by entrepreneurs creating hardware products in emerging markets. This third part episode is with Erik Hersman, co-founder of BRCK, which creates a modem-cum-router device aimed at solving last-mile connectivity issues in Africa. We're going to talk about the early prototypes, how they funded manufacturing and validated the market, some of the challenges they had along the way, and how the product evolved into what it is today. On this episode you'll learn:  Erik's mantra about why “Experience is knowing what not to do.” “Managing expectations.” It took 15-16 months to get a prototype working, then another 12-18 months to build it for the market. It could be done quicker if you: 1) really know what you're doing (ie. what materials should be used, 2) if you're well capitalized (have the money), and 3) if you're not based in Africa (increases costs and time). How to validate the market to make sure people will buy it? Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform, is a great way to find out. Raised $170,000 then created a for-profit company to raise additional capital. Early stage companies (particularly in hardware) have to find a balance of when to pull the trigger on shipping. Internal message was that it is not acceptable to miss deadlines. External message to stakeholders that you try to deliver when you say you're going to. Some of the initial problems (that went wrong) and why initial timelines were pushed back: “end of life” manufacturer (ie. they don't make it anymore), testing at scale, user experience, etc. Internal conversation within the company on whether they are solving the real problem of how do you get people online? Resulted in business model innovation (more so than technology innovation) which led to Moja wifi in Kenya and Rwanda which serves up free internet to half a million people. Linear versus non-linear growth: when you're getting venture backed finance or choose to take venture funding, they are looking for non-linear growth. Why they became a vertically integrated company—discovered value in building everything in house—helps with risk mitigation, agility, and the ability to respond to customer needs. How Moja wifi is funded. What Erik knows now that he wished he knew back then: Realize earlier that they needed to build a platform on top of the hardware since the hardware is just a means to an end. Focus more capital on the super brck earlier (their next generation device) since it was delayed 6 months. Hiring the right people: maybe hired too fast in some positions and didn't get the right people.  Links to Resources: Company website https://www.brck.com/ Connect with Erik: Email: Info@brck.com Twitter https://twitter.com/brcknet?lang=en

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"I think this is just the beginning of a revolution in terms of what internet can do for society," said David Bunei, Cisco's country manager for East Africa. "The more we have low-cost devices that are able to access WiFi, the more we'll see society shifting economically as well as socially." Across the African continent, low-cost or free public WiFi services are playing a key role in bridging the digital divide - as tech giants and startups alike find innovative solutions for the unique challenges that Africa presents. Along the way, they are helping to jump start a far-reaching cultural and economic transformation. In this podcast, Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney speaks with a number of experts with hands-on experience connecting the unconnected in Africa, particularly through WiFi. Featuring: Kendall Ananyi, founder and CEO of Tizeti, which is building solar-powered WiFi towers in African countries. David Bunei, Cisco's country manager for East Africa Gordon Feller, founder of Meeting of the Minds, a knowledge-sharing platform for connected technologies and smart cities Erik Hersman, CEO of BRCK, a Nairobi-based startup that's bringing public WiFi to a number of African countries. Olakunle Oloruntimehin, general manager in Nigeria for Cisco, Steve Song, communications entrepreneur who has written extensively about connectivity in Africa

Technologist. Blogger. TED fellow. Serial Entrepreneur. Passionate advocate and patron of Africa’s tech startups. Erik Hersman is a well-known elder of Kenya’s tech scene, having helped to found some of Kenya’s leading tech companies and ecosystem institutions. In response to the outbreak of post electoral violence in Kenya in 2008, he set up with three other co-founders Ushahidi, a crowdsourcing mapping tool deployed in crisis situations. In 2010, he founded the iHub, Nairobi’s innovation hub, which is the nexus for Kenya’s entrepreneurs, hackers, designers, researchers and investors. In 2014, he helped to set up BRCK, a manufacturer of a rugged Internet router for Africa and a provider of free Internet via its Moja service. He spends most of his time at BRCK these days where he’s CEO. He also helped to found Gearbox, a hub for hardware development, and is a principal at Savannah Fund, an African venture capital fund. He is the founder of the influential Africa technology blogs, The White African, and Afrigadget. Erik is also a Senior Ted Fellow and Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow. You can connect with Erik at @White_African on Twitter.

Chris Albon is the Chief Data Scientist of BRCK: a Kenyan startup building a network dedicated to connecting Africa to the internet, and author of the Machine Learning with Python Cookbook. For years he’s been contributing to the data science world through so many different outlets:   Cofounder of New Knowledge AI - an social media platform focused on protecting companies from disinformation, fighting fake news, and defending public discourse Former host of Partially Derivative - a popular podcast mixing explorations into data science techniques with discussions in the field’s leading experts. Content creator of Machine Learning Flashcards  - simplified, easy to digest flashcards for otherwise-complex machine learning concepts.   Blog writer at chrisalbon.com - providing some of best (and definitely most wide-ranging) technical notes out there on machine learning, statistics, deep learning, Python, and so much more. Our conversation went many places, including: How early childhood experiences (including his heritage in Zimbabwe) led him to focus his career so strictly on social impact, through political and humanitarian efforts How he’s established himself (and his blog) as an authority figure in data science & AI (with 523 resource links and counting) without having a “technical” degree The step-by-step process BRCK takes when incorporating technology into African communities & what he’s learned about challenging his own assumptions while doing so The initial inspiration behind starting the Partially Derivative podcast and why his aim was for it to be the “talk at the bar after the conference” what his newest book -- Machine Learning Cookbook with Python -- is all about, who it’s for, and the gap it addresses for the community Enjoy the show!   Show Notes: https://ajgoldstein.com/podcast/ep8/ Chris’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisalbon AJ’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajgoldstein393/

Episode 006 of Young African Entrepreneur features Nivi Sharma,  Managing Director of BRCK and co-founder of eLimu. You can connect with Nivi at @AmkaKenya on Twitter “You can do hard things” is the motto painted on the main wall of the famed iHub in Nairobi, Kenya. And it’s a message that Nivi has taken to heart in her impassioned quest to use technology to improve education. She got the idea for her first edtech startup after bumping into a government official outside an elevator. He had just gotten back from India, which was rolling out affordable educational tablets for schools. And, why couldn’t Kenya do the same? He wondered. And that’s exactly what Nivi set off to do. In 2010, she and her partner Marie Githinji founded eLimu – which has become the leading digital educational content provider in East Africa. Five years later, Nivi stepped away from an active role in eLimu to join BRCK as president and managing director of its education division. BRCK is a hardware provider with a wonderfully audacious goal: connecting Africa to the Internet. I had a great conversation with Nivi.I had a great conversation with Nivi. We talked about her early days at the iHub, the critical importance of teacher engagement in any edtech company, and BRCK's "infrastructure as a service" approach. She also shares what she’s learned from iHub founder Erik Hersman who is an invaluable mentor. Without further ado, here’s my conversation with Nivi Sharma.

3/4 OkHi is a new navigation device which runs on your mobile phone and allows you to find an address, however remote, with GPS coordinates and a photo. It should be accurate to within ten metres and copes without the usual massive infrastructure changes required by sat nav systems. Just outside Bengaluru in India, we take a look at the problems of getting access to banking services in remote communities and the solution being offered by a new company called Sub-K, and their human ATMs. Finally, Angela calls in again on the creators of BRCK internet to learn about their major ambitions for the future. Image: Wes Chege, founder of OkHi, Credit: Whistledown

2/4 A Kenyan company is planning to bring reliable stable internet and rugged tablets to remote schools with the help of BRCK, a solution to internet problems in the shape of a brick. Part two of four. In the northern Indian state of Assam, people have the lowest access to good quality eye care in the whole of India – 18% of all cataracts happen in this one state. ERC Eyecare has a business solution aimed at changing all that. We also return to visit the stethoscope creators from last week's episode. Things have moved on for the company Taal and it is now trying to drum up business – how are sales going? (Photo: Boy looks up from a Kio Kit tablet used in a school in Kenya)

Juliana Rotich var en av huvudtalarna på Internetdagarna 2016. Digitalsamtal träffade henne efteråt. Avsnittet handlar bland annat om Ushahidi, en plattform för att samla information från allmänheten, och om Brck, hårdvara som tar digitaliseringen till områden i Afrika där internetuppkoppling saknas. Har du synpunkter på samtalet, frågor eller förslag på vad vi kan prata om […] The post #056 – Juliana Rotich appeared first on Podcasten Digitalsamtal.

Last week, the global digital behemoth that is Facebook announced that they’ll be rolling out the OpenCellular system worldwide. OpenCellular is said to be an inexpensive, weather-resistant and fully customisable platform that will be able to serve as a wireless access point for connecting devices using 2G, LTE or even Wi-Fi. While this move by Facebook is no doubt just a footnote in the company’s playbook for achieving complete digital dominance, one wonders if this could signal the beginning of the end for the likes of Kenya’s BRCK— a home-grown system designed to do exactly what OpenCellular promises to do, perhaps less reliably. One wonders if there is any chance that a minnow like BRCK can stand up to the fire and might of a beast like Facebook? It seems unlikely that BRCK has captured enough of the affordable WiFi deployment market to develop a legitimate first-mover advantage, and it’s equally unlikely that anyone over at Facebook is losing any sleep worrying about their plans being disrupted by smaller players. Also in this week’s show, we share a snippet from a conversation Andile Masuku had with Gareth Cliff— the controversial South African Radio DJ, Idols South Africa judge, and Co-founder & President of Africa’s largest podcast producer, CliffCentral.com. Listen in to hear Gareth’s candid take on why he quit one of South Africa’s most lucrative radio gigs to found a platform that now boasts over 40 podcast titles and garners over 140,000 downloads per week. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

The second part of my conversation with Erik Hersman looks at how Africa is becoming the nexus of the tech revolution and what Erik and his team are doing for education. 

I recently had a conversation with Erik Hersman, an African instigator, entrepreneur and innovator whose work is widely recognized among the technology, development and humanitarian communities. And, I’m inviting you to join in. For those of you who don’t know Erik, he co-founded the heroic open source project called Ushahidi (which means "testimony" in Swahili), a crowdsourcing site which launched in 2007. Ushahidi was instrumental in mapping the violent attacks that were taking place during the Kenyan crisis. In 2008 Erik was named a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow and has become a Senior TED Fellow. The backdrop to our conversation for the show is Erik’s latest project: BRCK – a 'portable, rugged, on ramp to the internet for the many who as yet aren’t connected.   Full show notes available at: Instigating.co/4 Episode 4 Released November 9, 2015 Edited by Moondogmarketing.com

In this month’s podcast, we follow up on June’s reflection around internet access by reviewing a new device, called BRCK, that can bring connectivity to rural areas where electricity is scarce. Albeit remaining unaffordable to many, BRCK could be a step towards the ultimate goal of enabling everyone, everywhere to connect to the net. We hear about how, after more than three decades of rapid growth, China is entering a new phase of development, in which it aims to promote economic growth while also slowing the rise in its greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss the new model of sustainable growth with policy analyst Fergus Green, coauthor of a paper on China’s growth and emissions. Although controversial, nuclear power could be crucial to China’s low-carbon growth. And nuclear science offers other benefits. We discover how two decades of watching out for hidden nuclear explosions has created a stockpile of data that scientists across the world can use even when their research has nothing to do with nuclear science. Finally, we ask why insurance schemes are in the spotlight as part of the post-2015 agenda for equitable global development. Political economist and human rights analyst Ana Gonzalez Pelaez explains that insurance for the poorest is crucial for rebuilding communities after natural disasters. She argues that it not only facilitates reconstruction, but it can also help reduce risk and enhance preparedness before disaster strikes. http://www.scidev.net/global/technology/multimedia/podcast-internet-access-china-july-carbon-insurance.html