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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. VietNet-ICT also actively participates in policy discussions to formulate laws and policies relating to information, technology, and communication towards sustainable development and equity.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

And then there is Myrna in the Philippines, who escaped trafficking as a young girl and worked as a domestic helper. Women themselves revealed key challenges — issues of safety, affordability, technological skill, distance to Internet cafés, and gender norms that restrict women’s access — but solutions are also being generated.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

So, for example, we just did a really powerful training in the Philippines, where our regional leaders there hosted a training on a water filter. Who are women who really understand the landscape of the issues, and the challenges, and who have really taken action to protect their environment, to sustain their communities?"

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since 2000, the Institute of International Education has worked on leadership development with the goal of building and sustaining networks of leaders who would improve the delivery of family planning and reproductive health outcomes through improved services and policies. That's a challenging notion for thinking about networks. "We

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. When I did a little digging, I realized that aside from threatening our water supply in Austin, Texas, they had sufficiently done that in Indonesia, and the Philippines and pretty much all over the world. But you know, it teaches you a lot.

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