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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up. There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

Through identifying successes, it will provide a roadmap of policies and institutions that governments can use to create meaningful new open data initiatives. OpenData Latinoamérica: Driving the demand side of data and scraping towards transparency. Big Data for Disaster Response: A List of Wrong Assumptions.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

And yes, it may mean that a group in Argentina, that is certainly deserving by our basic standards, may not get a grant this year, so that we can support very worthwhile and important requests from a group that has even less access to resources in Haiti.

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