Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 12, 2007

It was my last afternoon in Mali, as I started psychic re-entry process into my normal existence, that I remembered that in real life, hey, I'm a geek. So I dropped by the offices of GeekCorps Mali, which as it turned out was just around the corner from where I was staying at Rebecca and Fode's house in the Quartier Hippodrome.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. Below is an e-interview with another woman making a difference in Mali, Caitlin Cohen, one of two US coordinators of the Sigida Keneyali Project. What is the biggest challenge of your work?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

" This is an emerging economic paradigm that promotes systems that help eradicate waste not just from manufacturing processes, but also throughout the life cycle of products and their components. ADB's work is in three main areas: Local. The Circular Economy.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. In the 180 clinics spanning two districts where the system has been tested, we’ve been getting roughly a 90% reporting rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. " Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. PersonallyI see a huge potential for web2.0

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

At a previous job, I suggested we move from using three Access databases and individual employees’ email programs and spreadsheets to a more robust, centralized, and informative cloud-based Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system. Most people don't like change, and adapting to this sort of CRM system is a big change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

One, the key issue facing activists who wish for real social change is the mismatch between the scale of our problems (global) and the natural scale of our sociality (local). I will make two main points in this post. This is a profound problem and more, not less, social media is almost certainly a key element of any solution.

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