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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Then it was time to distribute the gifts , including Flip Cameras and books.

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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This week in San Francisco, technologists and human rights advocates are meeting at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (or RightsCon )to grapple with the realities of how we better manage the human rights implications of new technologies. At WITNESS, we’ve been wrestling with the promise and peril of new communications technologies.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. Social Media. Shared.com.

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Interview: Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink on the Google AI Impact Challenge

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Google.Org is giving away $25 million to humanitarian projects that use Google’s machine learning technology. I’m the Head of Product Impact at Google.org, working to use emerging technology and Google’s expertise for social impact. Agency for International Development and for an international NGO.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO. Network assessment. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

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This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Henry Khu (@HenryKhu) May 7, 2013.

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12 Not-So-Great Realities About Nonprofits and Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. The survey for the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report is now available in English , French , and Spanish.