Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 13, 2016
A technology intervention is only a tool, a seed. He criticizes the founder of Toms Shoes, Blake Mycoskie, as a prototypical social entrepreneur exploiting disadvantaged children on the way to making a few hundred million selling out to Bain Capital. And planting a seed in a dry desert is not going to yield an abundant harvest.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
The argument goes – nonprofits need up-to-date tools to do their work effectively. And as our tools get more and more functional, and slimmer and smaller, and, well, cooler , we’re more than happy to toss the old stuff in the trash. We leave that to China, Ghana, and other countries.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 12, 2006
What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? tools for development, because everyone can now use the web as a space to express themselves, interact and co-create. s possible with free tools. in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 22, 2016
IDP’s pilot program in Ghana started with initial enrollment of 27,000 children and now is expected to reach a total of 150,000 children by July 2017. Through its Rising School Program , IDP is improving education infrastructures in existing low-fee private schools that serve the poor. Key takeaways.
Have Fun - Do Good
MAY 4, 2010
When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children. Over 90 percent of U.S. What was that?
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Can you talk a little bit about why they used arts, and why it was an effective tool? The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. BB: Why do you think the arts is such a powerful tool? And, their weapon is poetry. I just saw them as heroic.
Have Fun - Do Good
APRIL 2, 2008
They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.
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