Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2005

Mr. Global X (aka someone from the Skoll Foundation) mobile blogged me while I was talking to the Human Rights in China folks, Sharon Hom and Shirley Hom, who were honored as Laureates last night. Benetech is a past finalist for the Tech Museum Awards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2007

Development Institute in Beijing, China. of NPOs in China is far behind with foreign countries, but we can keep up in IT. difference in China. A few weeks ago I received an email from Jerry Hu introducing me to the Fuping. The organization works on poverty. employment, and integrated community development.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

4) China currently has the highest population in the world, however, by 2050 India will be the most populated country at 1,676 million (compared to China’s 1,387 million). Source: United Nations Population Fund.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 26, 2012

Understanding social media in China - McKinsey Quarterly - Marketing & Sales - Digital Marketing : Understanding social media in China The world’s largest social-media market is vastly different from its counterpart in the West. Yet the ingredients of a winning strategy are familiar.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2010

Photo Credit: National Geographic :: Waiting for Water, China. Villagers queue for a chance to fill containers with fresh drinking water, delivered by truck to the dry villages of south China’s Guangdong Province. Facebook: charity: water. YouTube: WaterAid. LinkedIn: Water for People. Flickr: Water for Sale.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2008

After a wonderful final banquet with our Hadley China hosts, we got up early to head to Beijing. The first disability group we visited was the China Disabled Persons' Federation , which is the main national group. Many of Hadley China students are massage therapists trying to upgrade their skills by speaking English.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 29, 2009

Asian American Giving: Role of philanthropy in China: "I was twittering at Give2Asia's Investing in China Philanthropy Forum in Beijing last week. You can find the play-by-play details of the event here. I thought I would share some of the highlights from the tweets:".

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 10, 2011

Out of curiosity I looked into those domains and they were both licensed by someone in China using the same hotmail address. On one message it pointed to a link on salesforceappi.com, on another it pointed to a link on upsclients.org.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

My first stop in mainland China is Fuzhou - 禝州 , the capital of Fujian Province. In addition to the products and brands I knew, there were quite a number of China-specific brands (like 361 degrees and Sept Wolves). One of the key leaders I met described China as "Europe in the cities, Africa in the countryside."

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AFP Blog

JUNE 10, 2008

Technology Firms Come to China's Aid - WSJ.com: "As donations poured into China following last month's devastating earthquake, one group of Google Inc. engineers came up with their own contribution to the relief effort: a search engine.".

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Like many of the agencies we visited, China is also experiencing a significant increase in kids with multiple disabilities. After working our way across China, it finally got to be our final weekend, and we were able to troop off and visit the forbidden city and the Great Wall. Our team toured the school. What an experience!

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Media Cause

APRIL 13, 2023

Most recently, their CEO went before Congress to answer questions about data collection and the platform’s ties to China. TikTok has been in the news a lot lately—for a variety of reasons. But what does this all really mean for the platform, and how does it affect your marketing plans? So, why has Congress decided to consider a TikTok ban?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

1 in 3 use WeChat Pay in China. At the same time, internet freedom is decreasing worldwide and there is a clamp down on the NGO sector. 67% of internet users live in countries where criticism of the government, military, or ruling family are subject to censorship. The Rise of Messaging Apps. WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Proceeds benefit Animals Asia work to end bear bile farming and improving the welfare of animals in China and Vietnam. Proceeds benefit Amnesty International, a nonprofit that works for the human rights of all people – no matter who they are or where they are. 3) Animals Asia Shop :: shop.animalsasia.org.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. We have extended Martus capacity building and technical support to ND-Burma since its inception in 2004. However, a great deal of work remains before realizing democracy in Burma.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Because, if we make software that promises to keep your life or death sensitive information secret to the best of our abilities, we won’t build a back door in for Syria, or China, or the U.S. starting to act more like China than the home of the free. government or even (heavens!) Let’s not do this as a country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

And, we're getting reports from all over the world of Miradi being used in countries like Indonesia and China, among many others. What a thrill to see our software used to figure out how to conserve an exciting nature area I've only just now learned about! Looking forward to seeing more plans and more stories of conservation in action!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The pilot said it was a regulation of the local aviation regulator (unclear if he meant Hong Kong or China). But, Rami was on a flight two hours later on China Eastern Airlines, which apparently doesn't have the same rulebook as Dragonair did! Gradually, more and more folks came onto the plane.

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AFP Blog

MAY 14, 2008

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Twitter crowdsourced China earthquake in realtime: "While the mainstream media scrambled to put up their “breaking news” headlines Robert Scoble alias Scobleizer, was early to tweet the news. Quickly there were live radio interviews, pictures, google maps, videos all being sent in real-time, says VentureBeat.".

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit Animals Asia work to end bear bile farming and improving the welfare of animals in China and Vietnam. Proceeds benefit Amnesty International, a nonprofit that works for the human rights of all people – no matter who they are or where they are. 3) Animals Asia Shop :: shop.animalsasia.org.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

colleges said they are prioritising student outreach in India and China, the two primary markets for international students for Australian universities. However, this also means increased competition for students from new and existing types of competitors globally across a range of new business models. For example, more than half of U.S.

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DipJar

JANUARY 5, 2022

Don’t forget the 2022 Winter Olympics are also being held in Beijing, China this year from February 4th – February 20th. If you happen to have your event on a night when there is a big sporting event on, make sure your venue does not allow the TVs to be turned on during your event. Other Distractions in 2022?

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Care2

MAY 27, 2012

22% from china, and 12% from the UK. For example: 32% of infographics use bar charts vs. 22% that use pie charts. 85% use a sans serif font. words make up the average title. The shorter, the better. 88% of infographics feature data from the U.S,

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 7, 2008

NussbaumOnDesign One Laptop Per Child Versus Intel--Who Speaks for India and China? BusinessWeek: "At the Consumer Electronic Show this week, the One Laptop Per Child foundation was supposed to make two announcements—the number of computers it sold under the Give One, Get One holiday program and a new olpc machine made jointly with Intel.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Elena has represented the city of Phoenix multiple times to visit China for cultural, education, tourism, and business exchange.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The first international chapter was established in London in 1992 and the NSBE has since expanded to Ghana, Nigeria, Canada, Germany, China, Jamaica, Trinidad, and more. The organization now boasts over 790 chapters worldwide.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 7, 2014

China’s Internet Users Increase Weibo Logins - eMarketer : Social users interact with brands, follow popular personalities and shop The majority of internet use in China is done via mobile devices.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. Today, a China official said the internet is a new battlefield without gun powder. Even in China? We found that there were users in China couldn’t access the.com site so it was created to give them access.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 6, 2008

We arrived in China just at the end of the Paralympics. After celebrating the big Hadley birthday, we got down to visiting several nonprofit organizations that assist the blind. Our first stop was the Fuzhou School for the Blind. When we arrived the students were gathered to greet us. We started with musical numbers.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 11, 2014

billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China. The latest edition has lots of NPTech insights. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 Global Internet adoption growth is actually slowing compared to previous years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Many of the publishers do provide us with permissions do not have global rights, and limit the availability of these books to certain jurisdictions • We first launched international Bookshare in India and have more than 1000 members there, as well as permissions agreements with more than ten publishers in India • We have recently concluded agreements (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2008

The Olympics open today in China to a multitude of emotions, including anger from Tibetan, Darfurian, and Burmese human rights activists about China's role in the conflicts in these countries. Participants wore T-shirts that said, "Give Real Talks a Hand" in English, and "One China--Talks on Tibet" in Chinese.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed many years ago in China. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. The practices are intended to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune for people inhabiting it.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In February 2020, he led the WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19. Starting in June 2020, Dr Aylward has led the multi-agency Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) Hub, a ground-breaking international collaboration to fast-track the development and equitable global distribution of new COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

China and India were big topics of this Forum. China's social entrepreneurs are under-represented in Davos, probably because of the relatively tight control on such things in China. Fair Trade Coffee" in the U.S., was one of the social entrepreneurs, Jimmy immediately wanted to meet him.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2011

China had the highest bounce rates at 58.2%. The good news is that bounce rates were slightly down from 2009 averaging 47% in 2010. The UK’s bounce rates were the lowest at 41.5% followed by the US’s bounce rates at 42.5%. CPC (Cost Per Click search) generated the most web pages viewed with an average of 5.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

She gave a brilliant presentation that shared the story of footing binding in China and how using a networked approach and network weaving techniques, they were able to change the practice in a decade. . How would I describe June Holley? She's the guru of network weaving and walks on water.

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