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Tech Soup Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2021
We spoke to four food security organizations in Colombia, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States to better understand the challenges facing organizations working in food security and the ways the pandemic has shifted operations for them.
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 6, 2007
Earlier this year I posted about how Ode Magazine reported that The Happy Planet Index , a project of the New Economics Foundation , ranked Colombia as the 2nd happiest place for the planet. Bogotá Colombia Ciclovia biking public space Hat tip to Carfree USA Blog for the story.
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Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 11, 2007
According to Ode Magazine , The Happy Planet Index , a project of the New Economics Foundation , ranks Colombia as the 2nd happiest place for the planet. Colombia 3. I'm not sure if everyone in Colombia would agree with this index, but it is nice to see a positive portrayal of Colombia for once. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 16, 2007
Nancy White is doing some workshops in Colombia. Nancy's Flickr Set. Here are some photos. She is using the Social Media Game -- can't wait to read about it! The live stream is here. More here from Stephen Downes.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 28, 2012
Over the last 17 years, Kar and I crossed paths in Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, and many times at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS. Kar was a forensic anthropologist who specialized in human rights cases, and she was a founders of our Colombian partner organization EQUITAS ).
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Although I began reading academic papers that described the social and political climate in Colombia, as I dove into the data, I never saw the names of victims-- only counts of those who had died. And then we went to Colombia. Tags: NNs Rionegro HRDAG human rights Casanare Colombia.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Because of the ingenuity of GFN’s corporate donors, a Colombian hunger-relief organization – Banco de Alimentos Bogotá, a member of the national food bank network system, Asocación de Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia – was able to distribute a large quantity of high-value groceries.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 12, 2010
Tags: HRDAG human rights disappearances Casanare Colombia.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 31, 2008
Guest blog from Beatriz, one of Benetech's human rights team members in Colombia. But today's mood in Colombia is more somber than usual. We Colombians are a resilient breed, accustomed to waking up to all kinds of distressing news and still somehow managing to go about our daily business.
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C., You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 10, 2011
Through projects that integrated statistical analyses into multidisciplinary human rights work, we engaged in the public debate about human rights violations in Colombia. This analysis is now helping to reframe how sexual violence is studied and understood by groups in Colombia and by the United Nations. and the European Union.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 27, 2007
Clinton has a great talent for making everybody feel like they're important: I liked the way he interacted with Vicky Colbert, the great education social entrepreneur from Colombia.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 17, 2010
The past year of research by HRDAG analysts has supported key criminal prosecutions and uncovered the truth about political violence in Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Chad and Liberia. They revealed the culpability of powerful people who never expected that these records would ever be exposed to public scrutiny - let alone scientific analysis.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 5, 2007
The text reads: Colombia, land of images. There is a lot of talk about war in Colombia. nera organized a video blogging workshop at the public library of the poor and often violent neighborhood of La Loma San Javier. ??lvaro Life and scenery. Dance, joy, and entertainment. ??? culture, faith, and hope. ??? We are also.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2005
One of our biggest areas of work is in Colombia, a place where violence and human rights abuses are not a thing of the past. They concentrate on recovering the remains of the many people disappeared during Colombia's complex and violent internal conflicts.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 8, 2005
Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now. Africa is definitely getting more attention from us. Kristen Cibelli is on her way to Uganda right now.
Qgiv
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Andrea Ortega, Director of Nonprofit Services Andrea hails from Cali, Colombia by way of Miami, FL. She has a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Public Affairs at UCF with a focus in Nonprofit Management.
Museum 2.0
JULY 24, 2017
And if you prefer your media in audio-visual form, here are two videos from recent talks about the book: A 12-minute talk about The Art of Relevance for a broad audience at TedXPaloAlto A 30-minute talk plus Q&A, with a slant towards science centers at ECSITE in Portugal Finally, I'll be sharing stories of relevance live and in-person this fall (..)
Tech Soup Blog
MARCH 7, 2017
Catalina Escobar , executive director of MAKAIA in Colombia. Nonprofit Technology Leadership. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross from NTEN. Karen Graham and Laura Quinn from Idealware. International NGO Leadership. Janet Mawlyoo , executive director, Kenya Community Development Foundation. Law and Advocacy.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 11, 2009
A Guest Beneblog by Tamy Guberek (Benetech HRDAG team member from Colombia) There is important news this month from our partners at the Guatemalan National Police Archive, which has worked since 2006 with Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).
Tech Soup Blog
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
Since 1997, in Spain , Mexico , Brazil , Chile, Ecuador , Colombia - and soon in Peru - Paco and his team have been serving up their magic brew. It's not a. political party, and it's not Spring Break, and it doesn't happen on. campus, it's. Well, ask anyone under 30 who lives in a Spanish-speaking country about Campus Party.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 21, 2008
Our HumanRights team, including Benetech Research Fellow Amelia Hoover and fieldconsultants Tamy Guberek and Daniel Guzmán, presented our initial findings on violations in Colombia to an enthusiastic audience of ICC investigators and analysts. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.
AFP Blog
AUGUST 13, 2010
Bill Clinton Taps Revamped Causes ‘Birthday Wish’ To Raise Money For Charity: "Former President Bill Clinton is looking to turn his 64th birthday into an opportunity to counter malnutrition in Colombia, reduce childhood obesity in the US, and improve lives around the world.
Have Fun - Do Good
APRIL 17, 2008
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event. Ann Curry, News Anchor for The Today Show , and Co-Anchor of Dateline NBC will emcee.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
This method has been used for estimating large-scale killings in Guatemala , Kosovo , Perú , Srebrenica , East Timor , and Colombia , among others. Depending on the degree of overlap of cases between the sources, the number of deaths that were not reported to any source will differ.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 23, 2021
v, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, Italy to India. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2007
Global NpTech: African Civil Society to Colombia Saidia.Org Blog is gathering stories about Web2.0 and African civil society for Web2 for Dev Nancy White is doing workshops in Colombia. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too! Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! Follow her trail here.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 19, 2009
You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. Martus will protect their sensitive documentation by encrypting it on the local hard drive and automatically backing it up to remote servers if organizations wish to do so.
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. .
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. .
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 19, 2007
Most recently Nancy White did a version in Colombia. I done various remixes -- for example most recently for fundraising and a version for Filmmakers. A number of o ther folks have remixed the game -- and it's been translated into different languages too.
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 9, 2017
Using a handful of photos and video clips shot entirely on a mobile phone, ShelterBox created a video days after the landslides hit Peru and Colombia in an effort to drive donations in the wake of the devastation. This video created by Animoto customer ShelterBox USA drove $3200 in donations with just a $100 Facebook video ad spend.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 17, 2006
Colombia???s She went on stage confidently and started to tell her story. She told Craig about her project and demonstrated how the electronic glove works. As she made every move everybody was fascinated with her story. s Minister of Communications began to cry in her front row seat; deeply touched, as most of us were.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 12, 2014
I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. She says: “I like to reach communities that we haven’t reached before in the developing world like what we’re doing to bridge the digital divide with the Aga Khan Development Network in Mozambique.
Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 30, 2006
It was a little over 10 minutes long and talked about medical needs in Sudan, the ongoing challenges in Colombia and how people with HIV/AIDS in the developing world are being denied access to new "second-line" AIDS medicine. (My I just listened to the first podcast.
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Last week at the United Nations General Assembly , Equal Measures 2030 launched a multi-country policymaker survey that explored perceptions of progress on gender-related issues and access to and use of data to inform decisions.
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 14, 2007
Cambodia: Somaly Mam Acting for Women in Distressing Situations (AFESIP) Canada: Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Center for Environmental Law Colombia: Mayerly Sanchez World Vision Hong Kong: Anson Chan Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The Liberian Education Trust (LET) Mexico: Lydia Cacho Ciamcancun New York: Dr.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 5, 2009
Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt. With that in mind, I think social media and social networking hasn't entirely matured as part of long-term social change.
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 19, 2007
T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. Survivors can also participate in rights awareness and leadership education training, job skills training, and business development support.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 26, 2020
Imagine living amidst conflict in Yemen, or avoiding your backyard in Colombia because there may be weapons leftover from war that are contaminating your land. Americans are extremely distracted, but there are Americans who are extremely generous and considerate of those living in worse-off situations overseas.
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