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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About five years ago, Brazil violated American intellectual property agreements by producing an AIDS drug for a fraction of the cost of the American company who developed it. The Brazilian government distributed this drug to each of their 203,000 AIDS patients free of charge.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country. Picture their excitement at getting approval to donate software to an inspiring nonprofit down their street. Nonprofit data is mixed with for-profit data.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

You can share PDFs, you can share presentations, you can share pictures, you can share videos, links, you can share your location and they’re all stored in your WhatsApp chat. Here are some pictures.” So, yeah, government says work from home and all the fishermen in their house with their boats doing what?

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, I thought I’d back up the theory with a brief picture of what this kind of travel looks like in practice. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!) Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few.

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