Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

A couple weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming e-waste and refurbishment standards conference in South Africa that I was co-organizing. The event's purpose was to join industry and government in putting into action some of the precepts developed at the 2012 United Nation’s Pan-African Forum on E-Waste in Nairobi, Kenya.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

My days as an Ally are behind me, but the passion remains: in December of 2012 I found myself on a plane bound for a Tanzanian NGO. I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. Matthews makes the point that despite slight westernization, Africa remains rooted in indigenous languages and cultural norms.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

At the same time, smartphone cameras are getting better and better and more people are using them as their primary picture-taking gadget. On October 29, 2012, Microsoft released Windows Phone 8 , an update to its Windows Phone platform. Capture and Share Events with Mobile Apps. Windows Phone Evolves.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

Since 2012, thousands of nonprofits have run campaigns on CauseVox ’s fundraising platform. Innovation: Africa has an entire page set up encouraging supporters to create their own fundraisers on their own schedule. In the example pictured, a young man chose to fundraiser instead of receiving gifts for his Bar Mitzvah.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. First things first: we clean water for kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was very fortunate that in October 2004 in South Africa, there was a meeting of social change market places that was convened, and I met Buzz Schmidt, Founder of GuideStar. They also find it more convenient to share scanned documents through WhatsApp as they use their phones to click pictures of documents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Twiplomacy : This site summarizes a global study of world leaders on Twitter and links to each country of the world with statistics and highlights of users (here’s Africa for example). The governments of more than three-quarters (77.7%) of the 193 UN member countries have a presence on Twitter. CERN (@CERN) July 4, 2012.

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