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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

Mobile payments to alleviate extreme poverty. Western countries are finally catching up in the realm of mobile payments. Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India. Biometric data to enable government benefit transfers. 1,171,000,000.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

billion mobile users as of July 2019 ( source : IISD). He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Thankfully, this is changing. Internet use has reached 45% of the total population in LMIC, with 5.1

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

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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Tech@State – Civil Society 2.0: Reflections on Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My goal was to have a conversation with the folks in the room – who represented both traditional nonprofit institutions, government agencies, and free agents – and answer the question, “ I’ve found my free agent now what? &#. Fortunately, that’s not true for every agency Mark has collaborated with.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. Here’s what I learned: Global Social Media and Mobile Usage Studies and Internet Penetration. Facebook reports that almost three quarters of its 1.2

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Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. We have extended Martus capacity building and technical support to ND-Burma since its inception in 2004. However, a great deal of work remains before realizing democracy in Burma.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

They write poems about their experiences, and when they recite them in community meetings, their neighbors are outraged, and mobilized immediately to action. They are gaining support from people in government, and politicians, and academicians, and business people, men, boys, women, girls. They are making progress.