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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

Tech Soup

do not own a computer yet, though most jobs are posted online, and many teachers are now assigning homework and having children do it online. This interest may have been kindled when he was an ICT advisor to the government of Namibia before he came to Microsoft. Nearly half of the lowest-income families in the U.S.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. According to a report by the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 450,000 people (including at least 4,000 children under five) are now at risk of severe acute malnutrition.

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