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The State of the Internet 2014

Tech Soup

Global Internet adoption growth is actually slowing compared to previous years. The high Internet growth countries are now India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, and Philippines. Global mobile data traffic is up 81% from the previous year. Global mobile data traffic is up 81% from the previous year.

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Selfies for Good?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Although selfies have been around for years , they have gained popularity recently. Family is Familia.

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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. This past Sunday was October 10th, 2010 – also know as 101010, the Global Work Day for climate action supported by 350.org Cebu, Philippines. Learn more about TapIt, get the app for your phone, and start today with a disposable-bottle-free lifestyle at: [link].

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

But while global experts search for solutions to bridge the worsening digital divide for women, it turns out the answers are at our fingertips. And then there is Myrna in the Philippines, who escaped trafficking as a young girl and worked as a domestic helper. Even if it is for an hour each day, women will access the Web.

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Blogging To Improve Cambodia's Environment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Born in Roxas City, known as the seafood capital of the Philippines, she graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in mass communications. I got an exchange deal with a local mobile phone company and they gave us a free dial number so that listeners can call in during the broadcast for free for one year.).

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

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.

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Operation Smile and #BitcoinTuesday

Top Nonprofits

Philanthropy for the global nonprofit, Operation Smile. We had humble beginnings 40 years ago in the Philippines and our founders Bill and Kathleen Magee. He had heard that in the Philippines, there was quite a few kids that needed cleft palate or cleft lip surgery and cleft lip and cleft palate surgery is a specialty.