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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya. Because there are many more M-Pesa agents than ATM machines, mobile payments are the leading way people send money to both people and businesses.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He will serve in this position until Franco finishes his term in August 2013. A citizen of Paraguay, he is the founder of Fundación Paraguaya , a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurs in Paraguay and Africa through microcredit and entrepreneurship education. and Africa.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Smartwatches. Green Technology.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Accessibility. Social Media.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Social Media.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

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Rather than just telling people how the world needs to improve, the successful social entrepreneur demonstrates how to do it. If cost benchmarking doesn’t make sense (as in the field of human rights), can we dramatically change the way people operate in a given area? Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. was designed for Africa and costs more. Digital Inclusion.

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