Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Philadelphia, PA: Using Social Media to Connect and Strengthen Local Communities. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Busia, Kenya: Blue Bells Orphans And Vulnerable Support Program /Kenya.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

So join your local NetSquared group and start participating in the conversation. And if you don’t have a local group we’ll help you start your own. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: April Meeting of local members. Busia, Kenya: mozilla western kenya follow ups -openness,opportuni­ty on the open web.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Kakamega Town, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Regional Meeting /Kakamega County. Saturday, December 7.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Bordeaux, France: Les Personas pour Optimiser Votre Conversion. Center photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY. Feeling overwhelmed? and the globe.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. Now, I'd likely just create a Google Map. Thanks Kent!)

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. If there isn’t a NetSquared event planned for your community this September you can still join the conversation during our September 4th tweet chat. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of local members. Denver, CO: Beyond Facebook and Twitter: Storytelling Through Social Media.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy. Local communities were. We wanted to share stories of that help and local support, otherwise everything would have been confounded in misery. We had to work closely to support local clubs in navigating this. People have lost their jobs.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. We can tap into local knowledge because our reports are coming from the source.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Those are the conversations we have on a daily basis. . I met them in the fall and we had conversations after the new year’s. We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” And so those are conversations that we have that we think are very important. Brian: Yeah, totally.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We started our conversation with my dad describing what cultural entrepreneurship is: Tom Aageson: Cultural entrepreneurship is an effort on the part of an entrepreneur who is very committed to cultural development and sees opportunities. So, in that case, they're overwhelming local markets with American product.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. Having friends in Kenya, she came up with the idea to provide summer schools in Kenya. " The organization works directly with local ngos and volunteers matching them by interest, need, and skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So we wanted to primarily address that issue: how can we pursue creative, innovative ideas for getting food out there that's affordable, that's local, that's fresh, and health-supportive, and then provide under that a foundation of education. These are a lot more of the sort of peripheral aspects of this problem.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2014

In fact, I dare you to sit at a campfire and not be drawn into conversation. As part of Storymakers 2014, we offer a slate of interactive events including our global tweet-chat on September 4, 2014 and NetSquared meet-ups this August and September with storytelling workshops and presentations in your local community. Global Tweet-Chat.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

For myself and other bloggers covering local accounts during that time, if we didn’t actually know someone there, it was stories like these that connected us to the people on the ground. Are you ready to join Storymakers 2014 on Twitter for a conversation that spans the globe? On September 4, Join Storymakers on Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008. For example, in Kenya, only 7% of the population, of the labor force, has a job in the formal private sector.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our October 14th conversation began with Jensine explaining how World Pulse works. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. I've posted an edited transcript below.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya. Response was laughter).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

Anna: "Grub" is our word for food that's local, that's sustainable, and that's grown with fairness from all along the way, from the seed to the table. So "grub" became our kind of catchall term for those three things, for kind of the values of local, of sustainable, and of fairness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Below is an edited transcript of our conversation for the Big Vision Podcast which you can listen to online , or download from iTunes. While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. What is Women's Earth Alliance, and what problem you're trying to solve? Her name is Solame.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn. My last question is always, "What would you like to ask me?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We went and had a victory party and then woke up the next day and realized that it didn't really matter because the company that wanted to build had gone to the state legislature to get them to pass a law to undercut the local ordinance that would protect our water. Whatever conversation needs to happen, whatever initiative needs to birth.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. It works in over 160 countries around the world. They are the majority of those who actually experience physical violence.

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