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Blockchain for Impact: Blockchain Revolution Global Event Wrap-Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(For background on blockchain and why it matters for nonprofits and NGOs, this Thrive Global article, Blockchain Positive Impact: Social Enterprise and Nonprofits , provides use cases and a brief technology overview.). The beautiful, artistic streets of downtown Toronto, Canada. BlockchainRevGlobal (@rev_global) February 25, 2019.

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Cambodia Bloggers: Five Years Later – Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More recently, John has been involved with the “ Open Development Cambodia” an online hub compiling freely available data in a ‘one-stop shop’ to help consolidate access to up-to-date information about Cambodia, using an ‘open data’ approach. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

Have Fun - Do Good

Women are walking hours each day to access clean water; therefore, they're not getting access to education, and an opportunity to create a livelihood for themselves. The greatest challenge we face is the challenge of access. billion people are without clean water. More than half of those people are women and girls.

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Solutionary Women: Brande Jackson

Have Fun - Do Good

Lokahi is focused on being a leader in grassroots outreach and campaigning – promoting social justice and civic involvement by reaching out to people in unique ways, giving them access to politics and social causes and campaigns. So essentially, I saw a real need for people to get access to what was going on in the world around them.

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Data, Data Everywhere: But How Does It Relate to You and Your Work?

Tech Soup

As Internet and mobile access grows, more data is made open online. with geeks, artists, and civil society activists. Presentations on the use of open data in development cooperation ( AidData ) and discussions on transparency and publication of open data by NGOs. NGO representatives, parliamentarians, journalists, and.

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