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World Economic Forum - Davos 2007

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And, later in the week I move to Davos for the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting 2007. I feel it's a privilege to attend, and appreciate the enthusiastic engagement social entrepreneurs receive from the most senior corporate and government leaders. I very much enjoy blogging from Switzerland, and sharing my experiences.

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.”

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

Since 2007, offerings like M-Pesa , a mobile money transfer service, which began as an initiative from the telecommunications company Vodafone, is a huge opportunity for those living in primarily cash-based societies like Kenya and Tanzania. Biometric data to enable government benefit transfers. 1,171,000,000.

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If it’s good enough for the Navy …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The process of governments in Europe starting to shift to open source software, and software that used open standards, rapidly increased the use of FOSS in Europe. Basically, it seems the motivation is that open systems allow them to upgrade their capabilities rapidly, and they need to be able to share data freely. It could happen here. {

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In September 2007, the U.S. We have the technological innovations to help these children and their families and educators, who are looking for strategies to aid their success. Yet, we are still far from where we need to be in order to give them equal opportunity to succeed in school and beyond.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis. Making kids s public so we as adults can understand what is going on. On the topics of metrics, we don't have a name for virtual worlds yet. Thus, metrics are very important!

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