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The Faces of International Development

Forum One

The three of us -- including me, a Product Manager at Forum One -- engaged in a debate on whether the internet pages we see here in the United States can be accessed anywhere else in the world. Do these same sites appear the same to those in Ghana? Empowerment is key. Everyone had a mission and wanted to achieve their end goal.

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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

In Ghana, SAP is using their technology and volunteers in partnership with a leading NGO to help women create thriving businesses through the harvesting of shea nuts. movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment. Seven Billion Actions.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It was the third Africa Forum I’ve attended: I went to Accra, Ghana, in 2011 and South Africa in 2004. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. This time, I had the benefit of help.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

KR: The Global Fund for Women has an extraordinary commitment to keeping our doors open so that as many organizations working to advance women's human rights internationally can really gain access to resources that they so desperately need. Those are some of the ways in which we try to make those decisions.

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