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What Are Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables?

What Are Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables?

This is the second in a series of articles explaining technical concepts related to on-chain network scaling, block propagation, and other related subjects

Last week, we explored a bloom filteras a data structure that helps identify a set. A related data structure is an Invertible Bloom Lookup Table or IBLT. An IBLT serves a similar function and has the advantage that missing members can be…

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Livestock insurance in the Horn of Africa—The Guardian photoessay

Livestock insurance in the Horn of Africa—The Guardian photoessay

Camels at a water point near Wajir (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale).

‘In Kenya 1.3 million people are facing serious food insecurity and loss of livelihoods as a result of poor rainfall. As the next dry season approaches, one insurance scheme is using satellite data to support some of east Africa’s most vulnerable. Photographs by ILRI.

‘East Africa’s drylands are home to millions of herders…

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Of cows, camels and 'charity insurance' on Kenya's Somali frontier--The Economist

Of cows, camels and ‘charity insurance’ on Kenya’s Somali frontier–The Economist

Bashir Ibrahim Mohamed, Takaful Insurance of Africa policy holder. Ibrahim is the father of Hassan Bashir, the CEO of TIA (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale).

‘As well as a cheque for $700, a knowing look passed between Hassan Bashir and Bashir Mohamed, his 80-year-old father. A payment at a ceremony for herders in Wajir, a town near Kenya’s border with Somalia, settled an argument dating back…

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Shelter from the storm (literally): As remote herders get drought-related insurance payments, the heaven's open

Shelter from the storm (literally): As remote herders get drought-related insurance payments, the heaven’s open

Livestock market in Wajir, where Kenya’s remote, never-before-insured livestock herders are getting their first protection from drought (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale).

‘It was almost inevitable that the day chosen to make the first drought insurance payments in Wajir, in the arid north-east of Kenya, would be the same day the rains came.

‘Herders who lost sheep, cattle and camels in the…

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Africa's first Islamic insurance for herders

Africa’s first Islamic insurance for herders

The son of a camel herder, Takaful CEO Hassan Bashir knows how tough traditional life in Kenya’s arid north is, where pastoralists rely on livestock herds surviving boom and bust cycles of drought (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale).

‘[Hassan] Bashir is also an astute entrepreneur, developing Africa’s first livestock insurance scheme to make payouts compliant with Islamic law, by bringing…

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Takaful, ILRI payout 'sharia-compliant' insurance to drought-suffering livestock herders in Wajir

Takaful, ILRI payout ‘sharia-compliant’ insurance to drought-suffering livestock herders in Wajir

Shamsa Kosar, a beneficiary of Takaful livestock insurance payouts made in Wajir, northern Kenya, in March 2014. This novel insurance was made possible by an ILRI index-based livestock insurance research project in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale).

‘Takaful Insurance will pay livestock farmers about Sh500,000 for losses incurred during the December to…

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