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  • Are there reasonably okay options to paying digitally without the surveillance part (or at least less of it as compared to credit cards?) Blockchain is a nonstarter due to the practical limitations in sustaining proof of work and stake.

  • What a great thing it is, to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting it.

  • free and open @baraza.africa
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    A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator | by Cory Doctorow | Jan, 2022 | Medium

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    UNESCO Lists Congolese rumba as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

    ich.unesco.org UNESCO - Congolese rumba

    Congolese rumba is a musical genre and a dance common in urban areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. Generally danced by a male-female couple, it is a multicultural form of expression originating from an ancient dance called nkumba (meaning ‘waist’ in Kikongo)....

    UNESCO - Congolese rumba

    cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/28510

    Congolese rumba is a musical genre and a dance common in urban areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. Generally danced by a male-female couple, it is a multicultural form of expression originating from an ancient dance called nkumba (meaning ‘waist’ in Kikongo).

    DR Congo @baraza.africa
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    UNESCO Lists Congolese rumba as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

    ich.unesco.org UNESCO - Congolese rumba

    Congolese rumba is a musical genre and a dance common in urban areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. Generally danced by a male-female couple, it is a multicultural form of expression originating from an ancient dance called nkumba (meaning ‘waist’ in Kikongo)....

    UNESCO - Congolese rumba

    Congolese rumba is a musical genre and a dance common in urban areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. Generally danced by a male-female couple, it is a multicultural form of expression originating from an ancient dance called nkumba (meaning ‘waist’ in Kikongo).

    News @baraza.africa
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    Podcasts @baraza.africa
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    Matirî Ngemi podcast

    Matirí Ngemi is a podcast discussing, exploring and researching the Agikuyu culture, history and heritage.

    The Gambia @baraza.africa
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    Voting with marbles in the Gambia

    The Gambia @baraza.africa
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    Disability @baraza.africa
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    Atkinson Hyperlegible - A new typeface with greater legibility and readability for low vision readers

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    A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson.  What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recogniti...

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    African Auxiliary Languages @baraza.africa
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    Kenya @baraza.africa
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    Running for 354 or 355 days, it is approximately 11 days shorter than the solar, Gregorian calendar.

    The year has 12 months beginning with Muharram, and ending with Dhul al-Hijjah. Each month starts with the sighting of the new moon.

    Disability @baraza.africa
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    As usual, several Israeli police officers would be there at the gate, which is close to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. But Eyad was used to seeing them there, and in case he was ever stopped (he rarely was), he always carried three forms of identification to show – two of them attesting to his autism. Realising the danger Eyad was in, Wardeh called out “Nakheh nakheh (disabled)!” in Hebrew, to warn the officers that the man they were chasing had a disability.

    Somalia @baraza.africa
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    It allows the country to go ahead with the delegate system of voting as earlier mooted, ending weeks of uncertainty.

    Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) @baraza.africa
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    Chancellor: Digital currencies are no “stablecoin”

    News @baraza.africa
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    Secretary-General Spotlights Highest Number of United Nations Personnel Lost in Single Year

    As a result, this year’s memorial service pays tribute to the highest number of colleagues lost in a single year. We honour 336 United Nations personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty and due to the COVID-19 and related circumstances between 1 January and 31 December 2020.

    Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) @baraza.africa
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    The digital currencies that matter

    It is this appeal, though, that creates dangers. Unconstrained, govcoins could fast become a dominant force in finance, particularly if network effects made it hard for people to opt out. They could destabilise banks, because if most people and firms stashed their cash at the central banks, lenders would have to find other sources of funding with which to back their loans.

    Public Health @baraza.africa
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    “This afternoon, WHO gave emergency use listing to sign off on Beijing’s COVID-19 vaccine, making it the sixth vaccine to receive WHO validation for safety, efficacy and quality,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhahom Ghebreyesus said.

  • As someone who grew up in an African country and spent sometime in North America, I would say there are various reasons one can point to [language, economic conditions, nature of available technology etc]. Most conversations in my growing up were ephemeral + oral. Mobile phones started changing the landscape. Facebook and Messaging apps like Telegram, Viber, and WhatsApp changed a lot of conversations from peer-to-peer to 'mediated' ones. I would say that most African-based folks are every social and active in discussions. They are just not in the platforms Westerns frequent, and increasingly so with closed-messaging platforms like WhatsApp groups.

  • Somalia @baraza.africa
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    Somalia’s government has been unable for months to reach agreement on how to carry out the election, with the regional states of Puntland and Jubbaland objecting on certain issues and the international community warning against holding a partial election or a mandate extension.

    The Default Community @baraza.africa
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    Questions/Free Talk/Chat

    This post is dedicated to questions regarding this Lemmy instance that cannot be asked in normal posts.