Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

What about literacy and education? Benetech's recommendation is to apply intellectual property to unmet social needs, by encouraging WEF stakeholders to think beyond solely profitable applications. Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

When faced with grant applications from organizations that can show results and organizations that cannot, most funders' choices are clear. Will you track results of adult literacy tests or teens transitioned into work programs? Tags: ingvild bjornvold measurement Newsletter NPTech NTEN performance management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold suggests that is an example of social media literacy: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively. Tags: twitter.

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Literacy Twitter Feeds 75