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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

we auctioned off these frequencies to mobile companies who then used them to create 4G LTE (fourth generation long-term evolution) wireless networks. Verizon Wireless launched the first large-scale LTE network in North America in 2010. In the U.S., Digital Inclusion Collaboration in Africa.

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Text-to-donate a huge success

AFP Blog

30, 2010Text-to-give campaigns are one of the biggest philanthropic success stories of 2010, with mobile relief efforts having raised tens of millions in micro-donations across North America -- more than $750,000 of which came from Canadian phones."

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The response to the Haiti earthquake by online and mobile donors has been awe-inspiring. Mobile giving has certainly been a major source of a lot of giving to support the Haiti relief effort. While mobile fundraising has been widely used in the UK and Europe, it has struggled to take off in North America.

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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup

He is the founder of CoCo Studios, which promotes media collaboration and game development for fiber and mobile networks. After studying film and media at the University of Michigan, Bailey started her career at Google in 2010, working with advertisers and specializing in YouTube ad products.

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TechSoup Global Donor Partner Profile: BetterWorld Telecom

Tech Soup

BetterWorld Telecom is one of our newer ones having been with us since 2010. These are packaged with discounted voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone services that unify all your organization's telephones, mobile phones, fax machines, and computers through a virtual PBX software application.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The response to the Haiti earthquake by online and mobile donors has been awe-inspiring. Mobile giving has certainly been a major source of a lot of giving to support the Haiti relief effort. While mobile fundraising has been widely used in the UK and Europe, it has struggled to take off in North America.

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Collaborative Technologies for Social Impact: How Survivors Connect leverages the web and you can, too!

Amy Sample Ward

Different regions around the global have a very different level of access than those in North America or Western Europe. It has always been quite interesting to me that in many parts of the developing world, there is near ubiquitous ownership of mobile phones,” explained Aashika. How you can create an online collaboration space!