Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The treaty does a lot of things, but let me highlight a few: • A global norm that there be copyright exceptions that allow for the making of accessible versions of copyrighted works for free on a nonprofit basis by a broad range of people or organizations, without having to get permission from the rightsholders.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

An important part of what we do at Salesforce.org is to convene those who can push the needle on improving the state of the world, and Davos was an ideal opportunity for us to engage inspiring speakers on pressing issues such as mental health, climate change, inequality, and global health. Jack Harries understands the power of storytelling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

The hope is to be able to celebrate the milestone globally on December 10, 2015, Human Rights Day. One attendee pointed out that the cross-border sharing of content wouldn’t be of much use unless you had the USA or Europe on board: that’s where a lot of content will come from for people with print disabilities in the rest of the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities. The investments that Amazon, Apple and Google, among others, are making in aggregating Spanish-language digital content signal their priority on developing the Spanish-language markets in Latin America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. When you teach internationally, it is important to localize your content and Tharum was able to provide many local and regional examples and tips.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries. What’s next?

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India. 1,171,000,000.

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APRIL 22, 2009

The World Bank and the BBC are running a live debate online and offline tomorrow, April 23 on the global economic recession. It will be valuable if they also capture the debate content and play it back out via Live Interviews Online text and YouTube - giving the debate a long life online.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. As someone who has been writing software for blind people for 25 years, we were in my element!

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Mobilisation Lab: Started by the digital strategy team at Greenpeace International, the Digital Mobilisation Lab is comprised of a growing global network of staff and volunteers dedicated to people-powered campaigning. In India, for example, “missed calls” have become a campaign tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2011

With this in mind, we asked questions in 3 primary areas: content- “what kind of stories do people like?&#. Here is a run down of questions we asked and the way people responded around the world: Content. For instance, in India, weapons won out. – like having a global focus group at your disposal!

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Part of being “GlobalGiving” is making sure we’re helping members of our community literally give globally! Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. Right now from the Social Good Global Conversation in Oman. SGSglobal twitter.com/OmnEntrepreneu….

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

The event here in Zurich is the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Summit, where roughly a hundred social entrepreneurs get together with global leaders to advance the movement. Sunday was a day of content aimed just at the social entrepreneurs. We discussed leadership, recruiting and succession, among other topics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

That shortchanges Larry’s background: he was the key leader in the campaign to eliminate smallpox in India, cofounded the Seva Foundation and a couple of high tech companies, and was most recently running Google.org. What a great kick-off for a day!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As Bookshare, we believe we can find money to extend the availability of our collection globally to the poor. The leverage here is ensuring that our patrons benefit from the sum of global efforts to make accessible books, rather than recreating the same titles over and over again. Richer countries like the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. They are not content to just sit and click. Be Prepared to Be Blown Away by Gen Z.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Then you can discover a sustainable, flexible, and content future for yourself. April Rinne is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader ranked one of the “50 Leading Female Futurists” in the world by Forbes. v, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, Italy to India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. That global connection is a huge way that worlds connect at Bookshare. Bookshare is also picking up steam in India. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 at its core.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. These are the digital locks that make it hard to copy digital content. Articles 5 and 6.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Decatur, Illinois: Storytelling, Planning, and Scheduling Content for Your Nonprofit #Storymakers2017. Storytelling and Content Strategy Best Practices.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. They are not content to just sit and click. Be Prepared to Be Blown Away by Gen Z.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

In the mid-19th Century, the East India Company needed a physical space to store their piles and piles of ledgers, forms and other important artifacts that managed their transactions all over the world. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.”

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Correction error: In the podcast, I suggest the East India Company first moved into their office in Britain in the 19th Century, when it was in fact the 18th Century. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.” When their non-dues revenue skyrockets.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is technology for good news from India. I could go on and on about this one so I'll just tell you what I've been reading on the topic: University of Toronto: A Global Overview of Digital Wallet Technologies. Available on news stands now, so check one out if you see a new issue while in line at the grocery store.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice. It had hit India.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2014

Written on the premise that all communications and fundraising are now mobile and social, Mobile for Good provides step-by-step how-tos and best practices for: Writing and implementing a fundraising and content strategy. Creating visual content, such as branded images, infographics, and video. Wildlife SOS – India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Crossposted at the Creative Commons Weblog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. CH: You know it is funny; it actually didn't start out as a women-centered initiative, but the more research I did about creating global training sites and free media enterprises in these developing countries, training women just makes the most sense.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This can be done by making data or key content available via APIs. . Collaborative efforts: Various organizations contributing their own resources, content, and data to create a common service that none of them would have been able to develop on their own is possible through digital platforms. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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Global Giving

JULY 12, 2017

Generally, audiences are much more affected by a story told through the eyes of one individual, than we are by broad statistics and surveys of global crisis. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Featured Photo: Empower 350 Grassroots Correspondents in India by Video Volunteers.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

I myself was also almost a human trafficking victim for the purpose of forced marriage in India. Different regions around the global have a very different level of access than those in North America or Western Europe. Create an online network with options for profiles, diverse content, and multiple communication options.

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