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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" The new textbook teaches the use of Khmer language Free and Open Source applications, such as OpenOffice, Mekhala (Firefox) and Moyura (Thunderbird), which have been fully translated to Khmer language (Cambodian). Ping him over at his blog.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

VietNet-ICT’s vision is to narrow the digital divide by providing ICT access to poor people in Vietnam. All people deserve equal access to opportunities. English is increasingly favored as a second language. They also have wonderfully egalitarian set of core values: All lives have equal value.

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Southeast Asia, Social Enterprise Accidental Tour!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just spent almost three weeks in Thailand and Laos on a combined work and vacation trip. One of my business visits was to a long-standing social enterprise partner of ours, Digital Divide Data in Vientiane, Laos. I wrote about that visit in my last blog post: Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

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Companies involved in the production of Agent Orange are still facing lawsuits from victims, both US veterans and civilians from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, to this day. . By 1994, investors had access to 26 sustainable funds, with assets of around $1.9 A nti-war wasn’t the only movement that took place in the 1960s.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. We don’t have the language to talk about drug abuse and really aren’t equipped to be able to help them live a healthier lifestyle and address chemical use directly. Is the approach accessible?

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

I'd say we have got more than 15 people on-board now for this idea, which is to put all the research that has been done on this issue into one place where people can access it. It is an observatory to study human trafficking in Southeast Asia, and it is a group of academics and researchers and activists from all over the world.