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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Honestly I think every postcard is a success story.

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

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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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Anyone in or outside of Haiti could use the tool via the web or on a mobile phone to make reports with voice, text or video; the reports were then mapped and sources verified.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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"I would wake up in the middle of the night and still hear their voices. I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Vital Voices :: @ VitalVoices. Vital Voices works with extraordinary women leaders accelerating peace and prosperity in their communities. Gorilla Doctors provides life-saving medical care to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. charity: water :: @ CharityWater.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These are issues that should affect and concern all of us who care about free, open and democratic societies.

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