Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Today was an example of this. In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals. James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. Bookshare.org Goes International This year marked my first attendance at the Clinton Global Initiative. CGI puts great emphasis on getting each attendee to make a new commitment to global society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

The victims of Cyclone Sidr in the southwestern region of Bangladesh have immediate needs for relief items, including food and non-food items, emergency shelter, basic health care, clean water and more. Take for example, Fight Hunger's Click to Feed a Child is similar to the rice game. Miss it and they???ll ll give you an easier one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Here’s what I learned: Global Social Media and Mobile Usage Studies and Internet Penetration. I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social.

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Global Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

For example, when you put money in a bank account, you’re relying on the bank (a central actor) to keep track of your funds correctly. This excitement has become so widespread that even organizations like the United Nations have started their own blockchain-focused research teams. What is blockchain?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Consider some examples from American policy history. In response to the Great Depression in the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration enacted the nation’s first-ever social policy with the programs of the Social Security Act. In more developed nations with high levels of state capacity like the U.S.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And so Anne Cooper and Berkeley is a great example for me of the success story, but it's not just in Berkeley, where people might think, "Oh yeah, of course, Berkeley, you know, of course they're doing that in Berkeley." So that's just one example. So just trying to get us to really see that.

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