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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

The Magic of Finding and Presenting Compelling Data In this Chronicle of Philanthropy post Matthew Scharpnick argues that despite the big data hype for every new piece of valuable data, a lot more useless data surrounds and obscures it making it challenging to find useful insights.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

In this Center for Global Development post, he says that African governments are wrongly being paid to collect statistics to populate donor database and considers how this affects the formulation of more effective education policies in Kenya. Pundits: Stop Sounding Ignorant About Data.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Is Jumo Worth The Hype? In the very early days of the website they had visitors answer a series of questions about interests, skills, and cause activities. Two of the questions were “Which of these places would you most like to visit? This post is also published on Steve’s blog.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

About a year ago in Kenya, we launched ChildCount+, which helps community health care workers register children under-5 and pregnant mothers in their communities and facilitates monitoring their health. Finally, there is a growing of m-hype which we should be aware and cautious of.

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The Right Way to use Social Media for Fundraising: Wildlife Direct

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We're still in the early stages of social media as in the early days of the web and online fundraising , so, we are in the "it's hype, and not going to last" phase. Some of the new tools now being launched to create a single profile that can be used across social networks will as analysts predict make social networks like air.