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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

I've just returned from organizing an electronics recycling conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where I met Dr. Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. It's located on the southwest Atlantic coast of Africa. How 4G Works in Africa.

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Digital Inclusion A Priority In Namibia

TechImpact

The crusade for digital inclusion, an undertaking still well underway here in the United States and throughout the developed world, is also alive well in rural regions of Africa. Blog Leadership Tech Africa green tech HIV/AIDS TechSoup'

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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, AfrikaVuka , the digital organizing platform for 350 Africa, is a climate organizing platform now engaging about 100 groups across the continent. BlocPower , a Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund portfolio company, is a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that is rapidly greening and electrifying buildings in America’s urban core.

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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

Jim Lynch is TechSoup's director of green technology (here's the part where I embarrass him — he's also pretty much the man as far as electronics refurbishing and recycling goes). The scope of the problem makes efforts to organize and strengthen the electronics refurbishment industry in Europe a pretty big deal.

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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

Kindful

The Green Climate Fund. The Green Climate Fun. The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest climate fund, mandated to support developing countries raise and realize their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) ambitions towards low-emissions, climate-resilient pathways. PADI AWARE Foundation. National Forest Foundation.

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Back to School in Tanzania with a New Windows Multipoint Server Computer Lab

Tech Soup

Jim Shemaria from Grace Ministries International walked in to Interconnection in Seattle and asked for a 20-station computer lab that he could fit in his luggage and take with him on the plane to a school in Africa. It is a sub-Saharan country on the East coast of Africa that is about twice the size of California.