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Human Rights Trainings in Nigeria

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend. Human rights monitors in Nigeria continue to be harassed. They also helped the NHRC upgrade their computers so that they could prepare for our arrival in Nigeria. Tags: Tripathi Martus NHRC human rights Nigeria MacArthur.

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Employee Spotlight – Stephanie Oni

fusionSpan

I hail from Nigeria, where I spent my formative years. The approachability and open-mindedness of everyone, particularly the management team, foster a collaborative and innovative work environment. The transition from this environment to a Tech setting has been an interesting journey for me.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. He started his career at a digital solutions start-up in South Africa, and for the past 4 years, he’s been part of the WFP technology team. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Books That Changed Us in 2020

Media Cause

The book is essentially a step-by-step guide to making better decisions for the environment, and why they matter. Adichie captures life during Nigeria’s Biafran war through a series of love stories and human connections, all with the backdrop of a mass starvation campaign and what suffering was like during this civil war.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. With international networks, it is important to recognize cultural norms both online and offline. (2)

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American Express Leadership Academy alumna Elena Zee shares profound impact of 2019 Aspen Institute Fellowship

ASU Lodestar Center

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 at the Aspen Institute. It planted a seed for me to step into the nonprofit sector. It felt familiar yet different.

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

With CoScreen they can remote into each other’s computers and access the integrated development environment (IDE), which enables them to write code and solve challenges as a team.”. Many of our users in emerging markets such as Nigeria have access to the internet sporadically,” Wilson says.

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