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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Farmazonzilla: A platform for farmers, cooperatives, and traders that aggregates, connects, and recommends farming services and products to simplify finding facilities, tools, training, and transports. He is passionate about using technology as an enabler to drive change and improve last-mile service delivery. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This represents a 10x growth over the past 6 years, and a 20% and 25% growth, respectively, over less than a year: growth rates associated more with successful commercial services, and unheard of in our field. Kushal is the founder and co-chairman of Vittana, an award-winning nonprofit that fights youth poverty in developing countries.

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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Orkut , for example, is still popular in Brazil, while Renren and Qzone dominate the Chinese market (where Twitter and Facebook are banned). one of the world’s fastest growing translation services. Use the right platform. Not everyone in the world uses the same social network.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s what makes our Bookshare service legally possible. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). The Chafee Amendment The U.S. national experience.

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

Have Fun - Do Good

And actually instead of having them eat high calorie, high fat, high sugar, high salt, bad-for-you food, to actually bring in fresh food, and connect with local farmers and farms. And in that book we were really interested in hearing the voices, the stories of people around the world that were addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty.