Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 12, 2007

It was my last afternoon in Mali, as I started psychic re-entry process into my normal existence, that I remembered that in real life, hey, I'm a geek. So I dropped by the offices of GeekCorps Mali, which as it turned out was just around the corner from where I was staying at Rebecca and Fode's house in the Quartier Hippodrome.

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Mali Local Children Award 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The site matches skills-based volunteers with nonprofits to do just in time projects like logo or business card design, marketing help, and other small volunteering tasks. It’s advice most often dispensed to discourage children from squandering their birthday money, but it is perhaps just as appropriate in this context.

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Volunteer Project Network Mali 104

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

--Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project. In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. What is the Sigida Keneyali Project? Sigida Keneyali means “Health in Our Homes” in Bambara, the most common language in Mali.

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Mali Project Change NGO 40

Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

Created in 1992, Ateliers du Bocage (the name roughly translates to forest workshop) was founded as a project of the Emmaus Social Movement , a postwar European humanitarian movement organized to nonviolently defend and support the most destitute members of society. To date, the project has collected and recycled over half a million phones.

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Burkina Faso France Tech Togo 36

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. I’ve been part of two particular SMS health projects that have convinced me of the viability of this approach. .

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Mobile North America Mali Cameroon 62

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning." What Can We Do, Then?

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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74