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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities. and ship the images and recognized text to Laos (and several other countries with other partners, including of course the U.S.). The head of DDD's Laos office is Ms. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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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 ?" At a massive ceremony that took place on 22 January 2008, the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport presented its new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Textbook for all schools that have computers, all universities and all teacher training facilities.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

sgEngage

196 0s – Anti Vietnam War protests and the push for peace in the United States is well-known for the actions taken by University students and protesters, but also involved outspoken members of the business community. By 1994, investors had access to 26 sustainable funds, with assets of around $1.9 Billion. . .

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

I’m a big believer about putting things into the universe. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. Is the approach accessible? So I want you to be able to do that as I share examples, as I bring up tools today. The other thing is to write it down.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

There is actually a great piece by a professor at George Washington University, Ronald Weitzer. 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.