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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. According to the Women and the Web report, 200 million more men have access to the Internet than women.

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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I grew up in Buenos Aires Argentina with a German/Argentinean father and a German mother. Why do you think is blogging (and other social media/software) is useful in an elementary school setting for teaching Foreign Languages? Blogging and other social media support reading, writing, listening, and critical thinking skills.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

Miguel Paz, the founder of Hacks/Hackers Chile in partnership with Mariano Blejman of Argentina’s Hacks/Hackers network , and with the support of the World Bank Institute’s Global Media Development program intends to open data from across Latin America through their OpenData Latinoamérica project.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. We should call them social benefit organizations." -Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. I am very inspired by that.

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