Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Their students actually go into the field, work with local medical professionals, and learn their real problems, their real pain points. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur (or VC) can't afford to look at a $5 million revenue opportunity, but that is probably much more attractive to a Kenya entrepreneur.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Busia, Kenya. NetSquared Kenya and Mozilla Caravan (Kisumu City, Kenya). Busia, Kenya: Turning Information into Action — Net2 Kenya Mombasa Local Network. Mukono, Uganda: Second Net2 Uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School and Community. Net2 KenyaWise Program.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Busia, Kenya. NetSquared Kenya and Mozilla Caravan (Kisumu City, Kenya). Busia, Kenya: Turning Information into Action — Net2 Kenya Mombasa Local Network. Mukono, Uganda: Second Net2 Uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School and Community. Net2 KenyaWise Program.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

One cool project that came out of a RHoK event is InfoPlace Kenya , an Android application for information and directions of essential places in Kenya like hospitals, tourists attractions, restaurants, educational facilities, and more. TechSoup's Hacker Helper can get you started. The ReStart Challenges.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Kisumu, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kisumu. Kakamega, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kakamega. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Thursday, March 31. Friday, April 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts. Social media success: collaborate, inform, build, engage. Some local news websites will also be hosting the Livestream feed on their sites throughout the day. Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and urban games group DCGames, organizing events and connecting local developers.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy. Local communities were. We wanted to share stories of that help and local support, otherwise everything would have been confounded in misery. We had to work closely to support local clubs in navigating this.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Kibera is a slum located within the city of Nairobi, Kenya. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Kibera is a slum located within the city of Nairobi, Kenya. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Los Angeles, California: Happy Hour with Informal NTC Reports. NetSquared East Africa (South) Regional Ambassador's Summit for Local Organizers. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Supporting Encryption and Journalism. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Wednesday, June 8, 2016.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

We connect the local with global resources.” The project is active in Iraq and Kenya. They place a specific focus on access to information, free speech and minority rights. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. So, why shouldn't our information, data, actions, and search happen in real time as well?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Sustainability is still a real challenge, but the cost to value ratio of a school computer lab is shrinking to the point where you are starting to see governments and local communities invest more on their own to promote ICT access. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2007

The Bay Area based World of Good Development Organization has created a Fair Trade Wage Guide to help artisans calculate a “fair wage in a local context.” "At For more information about the Fair Trade Wage Guide, contact Holly Harbour, World of Good Development Organization's Co-Founder and Executive Director at holly AT worldofgood DOT org."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!" In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. The tools can be useful for in-country connections, in local languages, or north-south connections. Through my blog I see what???s

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So we wanted to primarily address that issue: how can we pursue creative, innovative ideas for getting food out there that's affordable, that's local, that's fresh, and health-supportive, and then provide under that a foundation of education. These are a lot more of the sort of peripheral aspects of this problem.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

So I've heard of a lot of connections between local garden clubs, master gardeners, farmers, some schools will start with field trips to local farms. For more information about Urban Sprouts, go to the Urban Sprouts website at urbansprouts.org, and their blog urbansprouts.blogspot.com. Thanks for listening.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And we called it Project Launch just because we know that when you’re ready, Aaron, to launch that campaign, we want to make sure that we’ve given you all the information to be successful. We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” So there’s a need. we hadn’t finished.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

For more information about Back to Earth, go to backtoearth.org. And if you liked the opening music, it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight". You can learn more about Kenya's work and his music by going to sourceconsultinggroup.com. Britt: Thanks for listening to the Big Vision podcast.

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Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

You can search grant databases to find an available matching donation, or approach your board, top donors, or local businesses to put one together. It includes information about how to set up your own Mitzvah fundraiser page, and lists out current Mitzvah fundraisers in progress so that donors can find someone to give to.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

It aims to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones to bring the 4 billion souls on earth who don't yet have Internet in to the information age. Here are his picks for the top three apps that are bringing the continent in to the information age. They also connect well with Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Fundraising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. For example, in Kenya, only 7% of the population, of the labor force, has a job in the formal private sector. All of the other people are involved in what we call the informal sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

But lots of innovation never makes it out of one locale. I even later met someone from Kenya who seems to have reinvented this technology. They’re informed on a headline level, but it’s at the expense of a depth of understanding that is crucial for being an effective social change advocate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. There are women environmental leaders who are standing up for their communities, around the world, who do not have access to those key resources and information. The greatest challenge we face is the challenge of access. There are solutions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

Anna: "Grub" is our word for food that's local, that's sustainable, and that's grown with fairness from all along the way, from the seed to the table. So "grub" became our kind of catchall term for those three things, for kind of the values of local, of sustainable, and of fairness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

So I actually moved home to Texas and started to work on a local initiative to do some water resource protection and did everything right. For more information about the Rainforest Action Network, go to www.ran.org. If you like the music, it is from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight".

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And also, because I've always been involved with nonprofits, which are about helping other people and trying to make the world a better place, and I've done a lot of career counseling, I'm always trying to give people advice and share information. And it was really easy for me to share that information and link to those places.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. It works in over 160 countries around the world. They are the majority of those who actually experience physical violence.

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