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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When we do something that creates entry level jobs in quantity, we reach out to social enterprise partners who specialize in job creation and training. Our first partner in this work was Digital Divide Data, an organization that has an outstanding training program in the area of data entry and outsourcing.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” ” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. YCAB Foundation is an NGO based both in New York and Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

The campaign will run targeted workshops to train hunters in regulation definitions and processes, and partnership meetings to reform the hunting permit system so it will be effective in supporting legal hunting. Since this transition, Brooke has enjoyed working on social marketing campaigns in Mongolia, Thailand, and Laos PDR.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He will be bringing equipment and provide skills training to the first Community Access television station in Ghana. This group is an international network of people interested in e-learning, is organizing a trip to Thailand and Laos. You can read more about the campaign on their blog.

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Big News in Benetech's Human Rights Program: New Funding and Enhanced Tools!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On this front, we will collaborate with Internews , which will leverage its 30 years of rights-promoting fieldwork around the world to expand the use of Martus by including it in the suite of digital security tools they train on. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) to realize some of those possibilities.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

We lecture, and we're also trainers with the US Attorney's Office, so we've given trainings to police on how to identify victims of trafficking. One of the ideas that they came up with, which they started years ago with the Population Community Development Association of Thailand, was to have village banks. It started out small.