Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Read about their inspiring work in a recent TechSoup Global interview.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. David Evan Harris - Global Lives David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2011

The online event is hosted by our TechSoup Global Network Partner in Brazil, Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (ATN). Valter Cegal of ATN says, "We would love this jam focused on technology to be a truly global event and we can only do that with your help!"

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

A hot topic at the SCCR20/WIPO discussions in Geneva on global access to materials by the print disabilities is the term "Trusted Intermediaries"("TIs"). The concept of TIs uses U.S. and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. In the U.S. By the way, there are other requirements in these proposals that I'm not commented on.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. David Evan Harris - Global Lives. David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. This generation is doing more than clicking on line, they making change in the world!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2011

All this month, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Week 2: How Cloud Computing Changes Organizations. Can Cloud Computing Change Organizational Boundaries? Some people say that cloud computing can radically change how organizations work and collaborate.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2011

All this month, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Week 2: How Cloud Computing Changes Organizations. Can Cloud Computing Change Organizational Boundaries? Some people say that cloud computing can radically change how organizations work and collaborate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Orkut , for example, is still popular in Brazil, while Renren and Qzone dominate the Chinese market (where Twitter and Facebook are banned). Trends in technology change quickly. How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno. Be relevant.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

All this month, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. A View of the Cloud from the United States Learn how American nonprofits are using the cloud today, and how that will change over the next few years. Week 2: How Cloud Computing Changes Organizations.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. This generation is doing more than clicking online, they’re making change in the world!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. Microsoft YouthSpark, we will help empower youth to change their. How can you be the spark of change?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

That would be the responsibility of the Copyright Office, to advise Congress on any changes to domestic copyright legislation. ratifies it, then there probably would need to be changes to Chafee and U.S. In our conversation, I got the impression that the Copyright Office is getting ready in case Chafee is revisited. copyright law.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., Question: How would this help people with print disabilities globally? This effort at WIPO, if successful, should change this sorry state of affairs!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

We also agreed that we had to work harder at delivering our core common message that disadvantaged communities globally need much more than charitable handouts, they need access to the tools to help themselves. One joked about the nine months of follow-up work resulting from the five days at this meeting. Instant accomplishment.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As corporations become more global, their employees and customers are asking them to engage more with nonprofits in their communities. In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country. Nonprofit data is mixed with for-profit data. LEARN MORE.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. They broadcast and unite women's voices from around the world into a powerful force for change. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

An inclusive environment that cultivates engagement from a global community. We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil. What do you get when you combine around the table with virtual collaboration?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. Climate change is on people's minds. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Some people, most people use it now only for personal communication but it is changing with a lot of NGOs, a lot of nonprofits across the world using it for a more professional purpose, and I’m going to show you how in some examples that you can use it. . And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil. All the time.

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

Some 20 years ago, when working as vice president for peace and social justice at the Ford Foundation , I was approached by the Vera Institute of Justice about a global initiative focused on prosecuting the police. Combined with the right grants at the right time, it has the potential to catalyze lasting change.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The theory of change involves both encouraging local economic activity—increasing the economic multiplier effect, in technical parlance—while fostering bonds of community. There are now over 200 local currencies in use worldwide, according to a database maintained by the Schumacher Center, with popularity greatest in Europe and Brazil.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And so it became really important in my mind for me to think about another project that would actually get me looking at and get me talking about what's happening in this country, with the awareness that what we do here as individuals, as consumers, as citizens, has this global effect. So just trying to get us to really see that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. We travel because it‘s the best use of our time in finding the partnerships, insights, and the money our teams need to create more social change. It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative.

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