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Things We Like (November 2008)

NTEN

After you look at the sobering visualization of incidents in the Congo (DRC), you may need another dose of puppies. Walk Score rates your neighborhood's walkability and maps just about everything of interest near you, from bookstores to bars. Economy got you down? You need the live puppy cam ! Wired stakeholders. NTEN Member Beth J.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Webinar: Converting Prospects to Multichannel Gold

Care2

can dramatically improve response rates. In addition to working a variety of jobs ranging from picking organic peas to writing a book on using military networks, Justin has a passion for international development and indigenous rights from studies in Brazil and South Africa where he helped start a human rights nonprofit for Pygmies in Congo.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I think that's the key, 90% of our women were from conflict zones or very economically depressed regions, but we had an over 80% completion rate, which is double, if not triple, most online training program's completion rate. We think it's because of the mentorship.

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The Mismeasure of War

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The main thesis of the HRS authors, Andrew Mack et al, is that “nationwide mortality rates actually fall during most wars” and that “today’s wars rarely kill enough people to reverse the decline in peacetime mortality that has been underway in the developing world for more than 30 years.” Quite the opposite.

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