Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

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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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. If you want to speak with me about this personally, or know someone who would (or should), I would love to get together with you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

You would never presume that every person who speaks English is going to respond to a brand in exactly the same way. Orkut , for example, is still popular in Brazil, while Renren and Qzone dominate the Chinese market (where Twitter and Facebook are banned). What language are you speaking? The same is true for many other languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

Its fun to look at the petition and see people signed up from Djibouti to Brazil There is a cell phone component to the campaign that has caused it to really take off in South Africa. This post was originally published on Stephanie's personal blog, Starting Out. Check it out, [link]. . . .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Upcoming NPTech In-Person Events. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Evento De Design De Aplicativos Para Celular. The NetSquared Victoria team has been investigating tools for online collaboration. Check out the Storify! Our San Francisco group curates a list of tech for good experiences each month. Thursday, December 10, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The developer livers in Brazil. The only person I recall doing video work on Open Source is James Davis who did this screencast with Ubuntu and wrote a post about it. At havemoneywillvlog.com, we are considering giving support to this software project to provide free video editing software to videobloggers in other countries.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Or, Send them a survey and ask for their frank personal responses. Hungry children in Brazil? I bet you have tons of passionate supporters out there who would just LOVE to tell you WHY they care so much. But have you ever asked? It’s time for some phone calls to donors to hear their stories. Is it the little boy down the street?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

My personal experience exceeded my expectations for both my organisation and the larger causes of the social entrepreneurship movement. I was able to personally thank senior executives at organizations such as Google, IBM and Human Rights Watch for their support of our work. Instant accomplishment. Thoughtful and engaged.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

Finally, Amitabha Sadangi told in Hindi about his background as a very poor person who had the opportunity to get top academic degrees and then decided to help people like him rather than go for the bucks. There is such a natural desire to find ways to work together, and each of us has major strengths to bring to any such partnership.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

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). I'm not the best person to advise on advocacy strategy, but I've certainly heard from the advocacy professionals that this treaty needs the support of the Obama Administration.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

" The ASEAN Foundation is mandated to play an active role in supporting the implementation of the ASEAN Social Cultural Community Plan of Action, which includes promoting access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) resources for disadvantaged groups (youth, women, persons with disabilities, and rural communities).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It embraced a truly hybrid model; that is, it facilitated real-time participation from every attendee, rather than just adding a digital component to an in-person event. From In-person to Virtual, to…Both? The Community Sprint, held in San Francisco on November 2-3, was a first-of-its-kind event for the Commons Community.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s imperative to make online safety a top priority for your nonprofit to protect both your work-related information and the personal information of your supporters. If they’re able to figure out that single password, they can access all of your personal information. Do you know who the person is?

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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., For example, a person who “is unable to read printed works to substantially the same degree as a person without an impairment or disability.” the European Union and others.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

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. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil. She's the first person in the history of this entire area to go on to college.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

And we know that even the smallest person, if given a little bit of power, somehow that he can be corrupted, and this is something we have to stop. We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. Don't be a one-note person. Then write another book.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So when you use WhatsApp, you send the message, what WhatsApp does is that it stores it and then when you have even a little bit of connection, it sends it to the person, and the same for receiving messages. But personally, yes. So in WhatsApp, you need to have the phone numbers of the person you’re communicating with.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

Rather than being held in Geneva at the headquarters of the World Economic Forum, Pamela and her team moved the summit closer to some of the social entrepreneurs by holding the event in Brazil. The visit was both personally affecting and professionally interesting. I went to Rio de Janeiro and visited Vera Cordeiro and Rodrigo Baggio.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

This represents the total amount of electronic waste that an average person in the UK is likely to consume in their lifetime. pounds) per year per person for WEEE from households. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. It has been developing since 2002.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We received votes from all over the world including Iceland, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Poland, Chile, England, Brazil and Australia, with the most international votes coming from the United States. The Little Penguins are relatable to our audience and all have their own personalities which our keepers enjoy sharing with our followers.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Though few used it, (about 5,000 people), each person on average forwarded the message to 80 people! It turns out its volunteers carrying life-size avatars that were made by online supporters of our cause who chose not to be there in person but have their avatars represent them. The Implementation: Why did you choose to use Hyves.net

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Though few used it, (about 5,000 people), each person on average forwarded the message to 80 people! It turns out its volunteers carrying life-size avatars that were made by online supporters of our cause who chose not to be there in person but have their avatars represent them. The Implementation: Why did you choose to use Hyves.net

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

and "Let's call that person, figure out if they'll volunteer to do that, put it down on paper, get the designers to bang it out, see if it works, and throw it out to the community." They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. I am very much a social entrepreneur.

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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. Accepting payments via the mobile app simplifies the use of BerkShares in person-to-person settings including farmers markets and other less formal services.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2009

The following is the email I received from Kareem Dale in its entirety (and I have his permission to distribute it): Access to information and ideas is essential for personal and professional growth and full engagement in a democratic society. I found it very exciting as President Obama's position on this developing issue!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

A lot of people have a lot of various associations with the word organic, and for some people organic implies food that's for a certain kind of person, that makes a certain amount of money and lives in a certain area, and we also know that organic only tells you a little piece about your food. For instance, "organic".

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We know that the carbon impact of all that travel is bad for the planet, and the personal impact of all that travel is bad on our bodies. Our first in-person meeting was four years ago, but Kipp has been working with Benetech for more than a decade. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities.

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