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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2014
We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. Mifos can immediately deploy these new mobile features of its financial inclusion platform, which delivers world-class microcredit services that help open up new opportunities for the poor and their families.
Tech Soup
JULY 17, 2013
This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region. There is some great insight into the need for the Open Data movement to be more inclusive as well as explanations of why big data gathering should be more strategic.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question. I was aghast that it could take a dozen years for the world to believe the massacre had happened.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
That’s why we invited NetSquared organizers and ambassadors to participate in the TechSoup Africa and TechSoup Europe Summits. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and the Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 8, 2011
We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff.
Tech Soup
JUNE 20, 2013
This week check out the launch of the new Global Open Data Initiative, the pursuit for the release and use of open data in Latin America and thoughts on open data and democracy in Africa. Open Data Applied. Announcing the Global Open Data Initiative (GODI). It originally appeared on NetSquared.
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