Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Although charities were forbidden, the Soviet system encouraged volunteering for causes deemed important for the communist cause. Four themes emerge from the book, which provides an overview of the philanthropic sectors in countries across the world: 1. The newness and lack of credibility of the philanthropic sectors in many countries.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. As long as spare parts are in stock and locals know how to maintain and repair the systems, we can keep safe water flowing for a very long time.) The children living here are our exclusive focus.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China. Sending Money By Email. Back in my May Nonprofit Technology News edition, I covered the emerging field of digital wallets.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

zerostrategist : Google / China comes to mind! zerostrategist : Q6: Do the best u can to setup automated systems to capture metrics, look at the numbers, but don’t obsess over them or the ROI. I used that tactic locally 2 move others to act. engagejoe : ‘An element that’s integral 2 a campaign’s success?’

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Systems thinking and knowledge management become critical skills for philanthropists. The report does say that one “predetermined element” is the “near geopolitical certainty that with the rise of China, India, and other nations, a multi-polar global system is emerging.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. So, how can we really increase the equity and the justice for our food system? farm operators are women?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech. starting to act more like China than the home of the free. government or even (heavens!)

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

And they say China is being Orwellian with language as they prepare for the Olympics.) Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. Obvious isn’t it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. And some background reading. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Socialbrite

JANUARY 29, 2023

Consider the effect of China’s “99 Giving Day ,” which was the product of goodwill organizations and social media crowdfunding. Kevin Xu is the CEO of MEBO International, a California- and Beijing-based intellectual property management company specializing in applied health systems.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things On the other hand, the dominant countries of India and China are far behind. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech. starting to act more like China than the home of the free. government or even (heavens!)

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

We love people that look for fair trade for the farmers overseas, and supporting a bamboo village in China. Do you support your local educational systems? Look at the BART system. There are a lot of companies that give to international causes, which is great. We love it. That is all good and great. That's our expectation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

I spent a number of years traveling and working in communities throughout China and Russia and Alaska, working with communities where the problems were right in their face. I'm strategically talking about one piece of a much larger system. Britt: What is the biggest challenge of your work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

So, we work with a village in China that grows the bamboo along the river, and every two years that bamboo shoots up about 20 feet, and they have a whole way of working with the trees there where they'll just cut them down, use them, and it will replenish itself. Have a cash flow model that works, that is in real time.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

AppMachine is a public, browser-based visual content management system (CMS) for building mobile apps. While Apple, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry are the main players in the smartphone market today, some new operating systems made waves at MWC. You can build and test an app for free. Firefox OS: Built by a Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Provide lifesaving assistance during the natural disasters that occurred in China and Myanmar. Objective : Implement an emergency notification system for all the University campus community. Cool Factor : Campus Alert System. Organization(s) : Save the Children and Verizon Wireless. Emergency Preparedness.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

I started out as a systems developer. The demand for electronics in emerging markets will put a higher demand on rare earth minerals, which are currently mined mostly in China. Here’s my recent conversation with Carol Baroudi: TechSoup: Can you say a bit about your background before you started consulting with Redemtech?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

We’re in an era of a pervasive sense of hopelessness of changing the economic systems. And I do see that movement building. A negative trend is the silo-ization of social causes. People respond by choosing one area and putting blinkers on regarding everything else. There’s very little interest in compromise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We didn't just dig holes, and build eco-sand composting toilets, and rainwater harvesting systems in schools, and BioSand water filters. Our teams also learned leadership development skills and action planning so that they could be really clear on their own power, and ability to create change, and their action plan for success.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. billion smartphone subscribers in the world; the majority of them are in China. The Android mobile operating system is dominant around the world with a more than 50 percent market share. The Internet in 2013.

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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. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Even in China? If you show support you are lazy – no.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

The drone then drifts over the home of someone who has just logged onto the site Scale, which sources workers across the Middle East and Latin America to label images used to guide automated drones systems. Vendor management systems (VMSs) add a further layer of opacity to already murky chains of outsourcing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

So I started to understand that there was a system at play that needs to change. And there are women who choose to get ahead by emulating the systems that we have. The place where we get out bamboo in China, they had floods last year so we started donating 20% of our proceeds back to them so they could rebuild their factories.

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