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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Toyama on that issue: If a private company is failing to make a profit, no one expects that state-of-the-art data centers, better productivity software, and new laptops for all of the employees will turn things around. A great teacher is going to be better than a software program on a laptop or tablet.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. Some of the tools needed to do this work are obvious: a camera, microphone, headphones, tripod, laptop, and maybe a light. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We leave that to China, Ghana, and other countries. And, between phones, tablets, e-readers, laptops, desktops, servers, routers … it’s an incredible amount of resource consumption and waste. We don’t see or interact with e-waste. E-waste pollutes the environment and poisons people. So what to do?

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The Faces of International Development

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Do these same sites appear the same to those in Ghana? Can we really debate one laptop per child and mobile access when kids may really just need food, clothes and school books? Are we, and if so, how are we configuring our websites in the States so that people anywhere around the globe can see them?

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I got home, I remembered the work of colleague Joitske Hulsebosch who has taught video blogging in Ghana. Some Cambodians may have more than one phone as Borin explains here Borin also writes about how he uses his mobile phone with his laptop to get online. This lead me to a little experiment with Blip.TV mobile posting.

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