Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

We’re doing a ton of work with partners in India , the first country to ratify it, to allow people in India to take full advantage of India’s now-favorable copyright environment. I was able to share some of our plans at Benetech around implementing the Treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Awards were presented in five areas: Environment, Economic Development, Education, Equality and Health. I learned that in some parts of India everyone has a cell phone but few have indoor plumbing or access to clean water – change is happening. I just attended the 2010 Tech Awards Gala Even. What did I learn last night?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. The Lavelle Foundation is supporting us to expand Bookshare in India, which will likely be our first full-scale replication of Bookshare outside the U.S.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 28, 2021

” When we’re answering those questions, Accelevents has consistently provided a welcoming environment – free of judgement – where anyone, from anywhere, can bring their ideas about themselves and the world and be celebrated for the value their perspective brings.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

Participants also stopped along the walk to talk about the Davos Codes program and its Climate Action Lab ; the specific impacts these programs have had, such as new plastic recycling laws and bans on fireworks; and taking the program global to San Francisco, Tokyo, and Bangalore.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

When the personal computers were first dropped into American schools, they didn’t have the desired impact because the supporting environment wasn’t there. People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2011

A View of the Cloud from India Most NGOs in India are small and highly dependent on volunteers. Because it can save you time, money, and help spare the environment. Sign up for TechSoup's email newsletters and discover great resources, ideas, and donated technology for nonprofits and public libraries. Mark your calendar!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The more I learned about the manufacturing of fabrics, though, the more I realized how significant the negative impacts are on the environment, and on the farmers who grow the cottons. As a result, I became committed to using my prints on organic cotton.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

With an industry average of 28% retention in the peer-to-peer space, we proved that the environments we were creating with our events were not terribly fulfilling. That same son spent four months training in India when he was fresh out of college. Your job is to create an environment to give them what they need.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

A View of the Cloud from India Most NGOs in India are small and highly dependent on volunteers. Because it can save you time, money, and help spare the environment. Shawn Michael on Dynamics CRM Online for Nonprofits In this guest blog post, Shawn Michael of NPower Oregon discusses Dynamics CRM Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing their programs in these areas: workforce development , employee giving , environment , online safety , and the role of technology in the non-profit community. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew?

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This is a new Croatian company that has developed an affordable device that allow disabled people to control their environment with voice commands like ‘turn on the lights’ Miroslav Vrankic was trolling the conference looking for U.S. This company is all about nonprofit and cause marketing.

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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.” Key takeaway: Encourage, engage, inspire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The conference itself and the comment below shows how hard everyone seems to be trying to work together in an environment where some are saying the efforts are proliferating. . An easy example is green technology.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

To be specific, they are our partners in Australia , New Zealand , Germany , France , Italy , India , Poland , and Romania. NGOs and libraries all over the world need good dependable low-cost computers and several of our global partners run successful refurbished computer initiatives. and everywhere else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment. Important to test.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project. When I taught Networked Nonprofit workshops for NGOs from India and Pakistan , all the examples and even the icebreakers were relevant. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

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. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

” In this world, philanthropic organisations need greater diplomatic skills to operate effectively because top-down governments will increasingly moderate the environment in which the philanthropists work. It tries to identify not only hackers but those technologists who promote positive social change in a very challenging environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. 4) Simplicity Scales. He used the metaphor of the ants.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. Who are women who really understand the landscape of the issues, and the challenges, and who have really taken action to protect their environment, to sustain their communities?"

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

Measuring the effectiveness of current offerings is vital in any learning environment. Finally, do not be afraid of employing the utilization of new elements within your learning environment. .” In the learning world, perhaps more now than ever, this position has never ringed truer. Effectiveness of Content.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. On the other hand, the dominant countries of India and China are far behind.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

The organization operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Dominican Republic and India and also has offices in three donor nations: United States, Australia and New Zealand.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. So I know there’s an example in India that nonprofits in India are using WhatsApp because, you know, it’s such a huge piece of land. not interactive, but like more comfortable, a comfortable environment for people to participate?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we also believe will start to happen is that you create an environment of sort of inspired competition. This is the country I am in, " whether it is a rural or urban environment, "and now I want to calculate, how does the amount I was paid for this article compare to the minimum wage, the average wage, a non-poverty wage in my country?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

What effects does it have on the environment and your body?" THE SHAPE OF WATER (1:10) Dir - Kum-Kum Bhavnani The Shape of Water, narrated by Susan Sarandon, interweaves the contradictions and joys of everyday life for Khady, Bilkusben, Oraiza, Dona Antonia, and Gila in Brazil, India, Jerusalem, and Senegal. What's on your plate?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

It is a device to extract social and economic wealth from human waste, while protecting the environment. I heard about it in Hyderabad, India, at an Ashoka-Lemelson Foundation event. A good example of the problem of propagation is the IKO-Toilet. It was the work of a Kenyan innovator named David Kuria.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It had hit India. So I moved back to Portland, and I posted on Idealist.org - it was new at the time, but now people are very familiar with it, so thank you to all the people behind Idealist.org because I posted, and the next morning my in-box was full of women from around the world. It hit Singapore, overnight while I had been sleeping.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

They will absolutely destroy the environment, and it will be the breeding ground for wars, for civil strife, for terrorism, and for refugees. They'll look after their environment better. If they don't have money, they're not going to look after their environment. Once they make more money, to be honest, they'll be healthier.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

We went on opening weekend and elected to watch a couple of short films related to humor, including one by Mira Nair on the laughing clubs of India. By couching the experience within a comfortable environment. This fall, I went with friends to see the new Mind exhibition at the Exploratorium.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2007

The mission of my work is to take the things that I care about the most, women, the environment, and social issues, and package them in a very sexy commercial medium of narrative filmmaking that reaches millions of people. Shalini Kantayya: My name is Shalini Kantayya, and I am the Director of a company called 7th Empire Media.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Submit a project in the following categories: Arts & Culture, Community Development, Education, Environment & Wildlife, and Health. Think about what inspires you and whether you want to make a difference in your neighborhood or across the globe. AMEX gave away $2.5m

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." Last year I started supporting this organization called Free Set that is a New Zealand couple that works with a co-op in Calcutta, India. So you do what you can.

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