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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I attended a dinner at the Africa Economic Summit on the topic, and what was surprising was how little interest the business community showed in it. One of the guys from Merck was surprised to see a generic form of one of their drugs, since Merck had donated a ton of this drug to Mozambique's government.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

In Mozambique, for example, a recent study showed that using just 1GB of data can cost well over two months’ wages for the average citizen. The CNET review on it is pretty bad complaining of short battery life, a slow processor, and poor call quality. One of the bad news parts of this deal is the refurbished phone. smartphones.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

People, when you have a lot of crisis in your life, hearing about an even bigger crisis is just depressing. Let's just keep going, expand the coalition that is fighting global warming to include the people who need a new opportunity in life. We are going to do those things that will make it easy for business to do the right thing."

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