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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Founder and CEO Veronica Colondam was honored as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2011. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). It uses a crowd-funding matching system like the famous Kiva.org system.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. It was the third Africa Forum I’ve attended: I went to Accra, Ghana, in 2011 and South Africa in 2004. This is what my team calls a karma gig. This time, I had the benefit of help.

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