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Tag: Africa

February 20, 2018 EthnoViz / General

Popular names of Lesotho, Africa

Lesotho is an enclaved country in southern Africa, surrounded by South Africa. We’ve improved NamSor API calibration for Lesotho, which

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July 4, 2017 EthnoViz / Gender / General

Cultural biases in African bibliometrics

Yvonne Mburu is a scientist from Kenya and founder of Med in Africa. She wants to create a global network of African scientists and health professionals to tackle the cultural biases that affect the visibility of African science.

June 26, 2017 Baby Names / Gender

Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) baby names

Top 20 baby names of Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire). We’re working hard to make NamSor the best API to process African names, both for Gender studies as well as Diaspora studies.

November 16, 2016 General

AgroDiaspora relaunched

Three years ago, we proposed the AgroDiaspora project to the French Quai d’Orsay “Africa Forum, 100 innovations for sustainable development”,

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July 21, 2016 FDI Magnet / General

Diaspora investing for sustainability?

Picture credits: UNCTAD. The UNCTAD World Investment Forum is taking place in Nairobi, Kenya – gathering about 6000 trade and

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June 23, 2016 FDI Magnet / General

#GlobalDiasporaDay – looking back at EMM4Dublin and JNDA2016

Today 23rd of June is #GlobalDiasporaDay. Happy #GlobalDiasporaDay! Check out some international articles & media that are celebrating & discussing

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February 6, 2015 FDI Magnet / General

After BusinessFrance, France launches AfricaFrance

France took the bold step of naming yet an other international business initiative with an English name: AfricaFrance. It doesn’t

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October 15, 2013 General

Africa Forum – 100 innovations for sustainable development – LAST CALL

The deadline to submit applications to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s call for projects ‘Africa Forum, 100 innovations for sustainable

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French in Africa, English in Africa
March 1, 2013 EthnoViz / FDI Magnet

Monitoring western investments in Africa [2/2] : a mapping of French vs. English director names

Note to the reader : this article was written on the 6th of January for the March 2013 Feature of

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International Business Communities in Africa (Italian vs. Portuguese)
January 7, 2013 EthnoViz / FDI Magnet

Monitoring western investments in Africa [1/2] : a mapping of Italian vs. Portuguese director names

Can onomastics be useful to monitor Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) across the globe? Global and local media, as well as

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