Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

It is part of the AfDB’s ‘ Africa Information Highway ’ initiative, which enabled the introduction of live data links between the AfDB, National Statistical Offices, Central Banks and relevant ministries in all 54 countries. Is Open Data Just A Flash in the Pan Movement?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Although the challenges differ by region, the outcome is the same everywhere: young people are simply not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's workforce. Gadget instruction is an incredibly important component of digital literacy as more people are accessing the Internet from their mobile devices.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Did you know that 47% of HR professionals have said that retention is the top talent management challenge they face, closely followed by recruitment at 36%? Frightened by these statistics? If your own organization doesn’t keep up, your recruitment and retention rates will be impacted. Don’t fret! You’ve come to the right place.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

In mid- to low-income countries this statistic soars to a 25-40 percent access gap between women and men. There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy. There are statewide programs like Texas Center for the Visually Challenged and Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawaii. in Sparks, Nevada.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. A portrait of Fanta is featured on one of them along with a two-sentence overview of her story and a statistic that demonstrates PIH’s dedication to helping mothers like her around the world. The page includes several storytelling graphics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

" Some statistics about how many young people are using various social media tools. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Parents are facing challenges. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” So we know statistically that having a written strategic plan doubles our chances for success and that 70% of businesses that last past that 15-year-old mark have a strategic plan. I could measure it but then, technically, it’s not statistically significant if I lost.0001 How do we report on that?” 0001 pounds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

When women have access to specific skills, training, and education, all of a sudden their survival and livelihood statistics shoot way up, not only their own, but entire communities. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. Human Rights Patrick Ball recently spent a month at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he held office hours and helped prosecutors use quantitative data and statistical analysis to pursue war crimes cases.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

The Challenges of Open Data. While there are many potential benefits, there are also technical and organizational challenges to open data. So, for example, if you want to compare statistics on Oakland's public schools, you would have to dig through individual PDF reports for each school separately to find the data.

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