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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. This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to one of our own - the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

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