Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2007

After the opening show, we were treated to a short video extolling the virtues of investing in Malaysia. Every year there's a big party at the WEF on the last night (Saturday). Countries vie to sponsor the main event, throwing a big show and serving up their best food. Of course, the reason is economic development.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. I invite you to join us as we open new frontiers at the intersection of technology and social change.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Yaoundé, Cameroon: Empowering Cameroonians to Accelerate Open Data, Open Access, and Open Education. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Evento De Design De Aplicativos Para Celular. Bamenda, Cameroon: Office 365: Train-the-Trainer in Bamenda. Thursday, December 10, 2015. Busia, Kenya: Net2Kenya Joins Hour of Code 2015.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. environments, and a lack of technical or vocational training to open new. Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. In Latin America, more young people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. 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. Sarah Davies, FreedomforIP.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Companies participate and get to use the Fair Trade Certified label when they open their books and demonstrate that they bought direct from the farmers and paid a fair price. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers.

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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: What’s the big open issue remaining? the European Union and others. Answer : The current draft defines print disability in functional terms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. And there are still openings for registration, and we have people coming from all over the country, which is super. We also have Ernest Callenbach , who wrote the first book on the environment, Ecotopia.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And the last thing is just be open to new ideas and cultures. That’s not an appropriate time to be texting, but even the simple things, you will probably encounter them if you have this open channel of communication with your audiences. . And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil. Naira: You have access.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

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. Beyond these benefits, running a local currency on an app opens even more potential for experimentation. Now 15 years in, BerkShares, Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

But I could go on and on, I mean everywhere I went, there were amazing stories, and I kind of feel like now I could open up an atlas, or a map of the United States, and point to anywhere, and go there and find people who are doing this work of really trying to insure that there's healthy food available for everybody.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

So, if we close this mine here, how are they not going to open it over here? You can see the lightbulbs go off and you can see people have little epiphanies, and then the door will start to shut, but I think that's our job is to keep that door open while we can discuss real solutions, and that was one real opportunity where it seemed to work.

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