Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Morogoro, Tanzania: Role of ICT for Farm Management. Pangani, Tanzania: Storymakers Campaign. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Wednesday, October 11, 2017.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

"Meetings" come in diverse and innovative formats like Mississauga, Canada's Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo; Pangani, Tanzania's Social Media Surgery ; and Birmingham, United Kingdom's Summer Tech for Good Social in a local pub. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: The Internet of Things: You Only Live Twice?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Internet use has reached 45% of the total population in LMIC, with 5.1 He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Thankfully, this is changing. billion mobile users as of July 2019 ( source : IISD).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Running Your Organization Social Networking Using the Web and Internet. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year. recordings.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events. Busia, Kenya: Beyond Today’s Internet Experiencing: Smart Future Conference Kenya. Wednesday, March 25, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. And just last month, I used Twitter to raise $350 in a couple hours to help send the NTEN staff out for a relaxing excursion.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Pre-internet, people were limited to these passionate conversations with friends in person or by phone. Here are the top five ways building a community on social networking sites benefits nonprofits advocating for social change. Helps to better brand organizations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Most notably, it has been used by nonprofit D-Tree International to reduce rates of serious illness and preventable and treatable diseases in Tanzania. Since 2005, nonprofits have downloaded it more than 13,000 times to send news, communicate information on critical issues, and serve as an emergency help line.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

“15% of the UK population hasn’t experienced the Internet even once.” “It’s not about technology, it’s finally about who uses it and how.” ” Ken. Banks of Kiwanja on the tendency of social media people to get. preoccupied with technology. development in Africa. On the core.

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AFP Blog

MAY 28, 2009

Epic Change, a charity raising money for a school in Tanzania, is a finalist in one of a mushrooming number of contests that enable Web users to vote for nonprofit groups. But Stacey Monk, its founder, sees a big challenge: the lack of Internet access. - Philanthropy.com: "Do Online Fund-Raising Contests Squeeze Out Foreign Charities?Epic

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty. Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

They offer $100-$150 start-up grants to businesses in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Project Baobob , an organization that provides free education in business skills for Kenyan youth, and Kiva , a web-based organization that allows individuals, like you and me, to make microloans (rather than a donation) to individuals via the Internet.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Yes we have an accessible and attention span limited world thanks in great deal to the internet. Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Here are my picks for the Best Internet Marketing for a Cause 2006 (in alphabetical order). What are your favorite examples of the Best Internet Marketing for a Cause? nonprofit internet marketing cause I find that the campaigns I respond the most to are the ones with heart, whimsy and oftentimes, a story. I think he's PVC."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. The user will receive a text with the three closest locations that have free Internet access. The app is currently being used in Tanzania, but the developers are hoping to deploy it in other countries as well.

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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. The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

In Tanzania, only something like 3.5%; in Sudan, it's only about 1.5%, and even in India, which we think of as being more developed, it's only about 10% of the people who actually have a job in the formal private sector. The Internet, it took 10 - 15 years, also, before anybody started doing this on a large scale.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder, with her husband, Matthew Flannery, of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to allow everyday philanthropists, like you and me, to loan money to budding entrepreneurs all over the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

We now have more than 3,500 users in over 140 countries using Miradi for projects as varied as a coordinated national strategy for the preservation of the chimpanzees in Tanzania, to the development of management plans for two Marine National parks bordering Sweden and Norway.

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