sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

the #MeToo movement in Asia , reproductive rights activism in Honduras , and the ongoing fight for women’s equality in Iran. We’ll explore this idea and more at All In, All Rise, WPI’s upcoming national symposium on gender, charitable giving and building an equitable philanthropic sector.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

As the worldwide debate continues about the release of government information by Wikileaks, history has shown that the uncovering of government data can be an important factor in human rights investigations. million documents in the Guatemalan National Police Archive which was discovered by chance in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

History reminds us that paradigm shifts of this nature are not accepted by simply telling the facts. A Tweet this week on Iran and on the conventional news coverage there. We can see the larger regional or national view. . This is a Paradigm Shift. Vis many in newspapers today!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2010

Amazingly powerful insights on America and our role building this nation. -- Martin Luther King Day, 2010 Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

For the first time in human history, we have the ability to create what some people have called, "global brain," where each of us is one cell in a global consciousness. There are people in positions of power in places like Iran and Washington, D.C. The planet will save itself by exterminating us. That is the opportunity we have.

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