Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Sometimes I feel like there''s an encyclopedia of online advocacy, fundraising, and social media stuck in my head. In India, for example, “missed calls” have become a campaign tool. Greenpeace India has used missed calls as a cheap and quick way to engage people and build lists.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We’re not an advocacy organization, but our technical insights are in great demand from advocates. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market. An easy example is green technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Survivors Connect is an organization supporting activists and building survivor advocacy networks using collaborative technologies to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. I myself was also almost a human trafficking victim for the purpose of forced marriage in India. The tool to try: Just communicate by email, privately.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." This was what didn't. These were our challenges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

It was so gratifying to see firsthand how Martus , a free and open-source software tool developed by Benetech, is empowering people to be the change they wish to see. ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China.

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