Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

New ideas for Benetech projects come to us from interesting people all the time. The challenges that people bring are rarely technology problems: they are market problems. Their students actually go into the field, work with local medical professionals, and learn their real problems, their real pain points. So far, so good.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

More than 20 NetSquared-affiliated organizers will be at the conference (look for the people wearing NetSquared pins.) Don't worry, there are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. The link need to be like so: Africa. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

NetSquared holds free or low-cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. Newest NetSquared Groups.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

That means Net2Local organizers are reaching as many people as NTEN’s NTC conference every quarter ! Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. China, Cameroon, Uganda and Kenya. Approximately 5,000 attendees.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

and have a reason to hang out with other cool people! The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Los Angeles, California: Using Technology in Local Activism. If you're interested, apply now.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. One of the things TechSoup does well is to bring relevant tools and resources to the needs that people have on the ground. Dara Westling.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

This session we focused on issues of health data collection--represented by the form shown here, which is a brand-new data collection instrument from Kenya (brought to the group by PATH's David Lubinski). This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. Technology for Good Report. All Things D.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. Younger people who are the most deeply engaged demographic on social media are likely to also use services like YouTube and also Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram. is another one I’m watching. Google Drive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. PersonallyI see a huge potential for web2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Accessibility. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And one of the things I like about the feasibility study is that if you’re discussing your project with the right people, it actually warms the donor and the community to your project before the beginning of your solicitation process. We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.”

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Our friends at NTEN give out NTENny Awards every year to recognize people making a significant contribution to the nonprofit tech community; once again, close to half of the winners were affiliated with NetSquared and our Tech4Good meetups. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. Africa and Middle East.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We do it in a number of ways. It's called the Biosand Water Filter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. As we've heard, something like 18% of the people in the world live on less than $1 a day, and a much bigger percentage live on less than $2 a day. Britt Bravo:What is KickStart doing?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This time I’ll review some new developments in digital inclusion, smart watches, accessibility technology, apps in Africa, crowdfunding resources, and digital trends to expect in the next five years. This technology will make it easier for blind and sight-impaired people to browse the web. Move over Gates Foundation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Harvard lecturer and activist Marshall Ganz says people are rooted in their values and interests, rather than particular issues. We understand other people when we can relate to them, and the best way to relate is to know how we are similar, how our deep-seated personal values align. Storytelling can be a powerful tool for good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

billion people are without clean water. More than half of those people are women and girls. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. MK: So, we just returned from Ghana in West Africa where we convened the 2010 West African Women and Water Training. Her name is Solame.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. FINCA :: @ FINCA. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And also, we'll be here a little bit for the reception, so you can also come and talk to people one-on-one. And really, when I started, I thought that blogs were for kind of strange people in their basements who were typing about conspiracy theories and stuff like that. There are a lot of people who don't.

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