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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At last night's awards ceremonies, the highlight was seeing four short films on four of the Skoll Social entrepreneurs. They are definitely tackling market failure in the publishing industry: in Nepal they are now the second largest publisher of children's books in Nepali. and more.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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She was also awarded their annual Ida B. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. CH: I was a foreign correspondent in Nepal from 2003 to 2004 and had a really amazing experience in Nepal. I came back to the States after working in Nepal, and I took a job as a feature writer in San Francisco.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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Our October 14th conversation began with Jensine explaining how World Pulse works. You can just go on there and you can be talking immediately to women in Bolivia, and in Nepal, and drawing strength, courage, and support from them, and vice versa. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia. It's just accessible.

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