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LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week. Source: BBC

BuffaloGrid, a startup that provides phone charging and digital content to people in off-grid environments, is teaming up with the Techfugees refugee non-profit to provid free educational content and device charging to displaced people across East Africa and the Middle-East. Read more

Farmers and food businesses, like restaurants, deal with the same issue: a fragmented supply chain. Secai Marche wants to streamline agricultural logistics, making fulfillment more cost-efficient and enabling food businesses to bundle products from different farmers into the same order. Read more

Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. This means people in smaller cities or rural areas need to deal with longer wait times for deliveries. Social commerce Read more

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has proposed six election reforms following their rejection of the ones proposed by the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) after a two-day meeting to review the 2020 general election. At a press conference, the Director of Read more

Former Speaker of Parliament, Prof Aaron Mike Oquaye has denied claims of having endorsed Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia or any other personality in the New Patriotic Party for the flagbearership position towards the 2024 general elections. “My attention has Read more

The Ghana Football Association has appointed former International Adjoa Bayor as coordinator for the four female national teams. The 41 year old who played at the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup in the USA is expected to bring her experience Read more

Senior Advisor to President Akufo-Addo Yaw Osafo-Maafo has challenged traditional rulers to take a lead role in government’s renewed fight against illegal small-scale mining. The Senior Advisor who was heavily criticized in 2019 for his infamous Aisha Huang deportation comment Read more

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor has underscored the need for urgent action to reverse the alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation.  He stated that despite the several benefits derived from the forest, the Read more

Submarines controlled by artificial intelligence are being designed to take on military missions. Source: BBC

Telemedicine, in its original form of the phone call, has been around for decades. For people in remote or rural areas without easy access to in-person care, consulting a doctor over the phone has often been the go-to approach. But Read more

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s Thursday, everyone, and the technology and startup worlds were a mixed bag today. We learned about Read more

National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the party will no longer take election-related issues to the courts for redress as far as results are concerned.  Speaking at a press briefing Thursday, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo stated that in subsequent Read more

Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has defended reasons provided by the party on boycotting Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meetings held after the 2020 general elections. Speaking to JoyNews’ Emefa Apawu on Top Story, Mr Gyamfi Read more

Watching construction tech software company Procore go public today after pricing above its range makes the IPO slowdown look like the deceleration that wasn’t. Investors quickly bid up the company’s value in trading, giving Procore a higher valuation than it Read more

It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of consolidating and then scaling promising brands that have built a business selling Read more

Gustavo Parés Contributor Share on Twitter Gustavo Parés is CEO of NDS Cognitive Labs, a leader in cognitive computing and AI business solutions. A professor at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), he’s partnered with Microsoft, IBM Read more