Candid

MARCH 6, 2023

Movements often involve a rallying cry, a widely recognized iconography, often a color (think pink for breast cancer), meaningful dates, repeated activities (from Freedom Rides to annual walks), and a shared goal for the common good. Photo credit: Peter Caton, Action Against Hunger , Kenya The post Is it a movement or a moment?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Cell Slider , which is a crowdsourced online tool for cancer research that challenges the ponderous cancer research establishment. This project aims to speed up cancer research. I admit to being a bit envious of the Safaricom M-PESA.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. There are payment processing fees attached to this which work out to roughly 3-5%. If you don't meet your goal, there are no fees.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. There are payment processing fees attached to this which work out to roughly 3-5%. If you don't meet your goal, there are no fees.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

This session we focused on issues of health data collection--represented by the form shown here, which is a brand-new data collection instrument from Kenya (brought to the group by PATH's David Lubinski). This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

We did a program called "We Can Surmount" which is like the AIDS ride, which was taking people who had been cancer survivors or affected by cancer, on to wilderness journeys. And if you liked the opening music, it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight". Britt: Thanks for listening to the Big Vision podcast.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. TechCrunch. What the heck.

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