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Science Technology and Society Forum in Kyoto

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm in Kyoto, Japan for the STS forum, an incredible gathering of top scientists and policy leaders from around the world. The caliber of attendees is amazing from all countries: ministers of education and science, top scientists, university presidents. The event is the brainchild of Koji Omi, former Finance Minister of Japan.

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API Explained: This Technology Will Transform Your Company’s Charitable Giving

Global Giving

Kevin is a member of CTOs for Good and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.S. KizunaCranes.com was an engaging site designed to raise funds for the Japan earthquake relief efforts. in Computer Science with Honors and a B.A. in Economics. Q: Kevin, what is an API? A: API is an acronym.

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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Newell said that they’ll be building curricula around Portal 2 by developing custom tools that allow students to create content to match educational programs. ” Science gets a swift kick of fun when you can learn about it by being propelled through the air in a game. Players raised over $1.5 million in just five days.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

If you're an NTEN Member -- or have been lurking around for awhile -- you know that Universal Broadband Access is an issue we care deeply about. They're doing some fabulous organizing around universal access and have provided some basic talking points for comments to the FCC. It's essential that they hear from us.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. But there are other content models we can explore. How to solve a quadratic equation.

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Jewish Television Network Delivers Online Religious Service

See3

I am watching in Japan, the nearest synagogue is in a different city. This is the first time in years that, as I sat at home, I felt like I was reaching out to the Universe of which we are all a part. The spiritual content and music has touched me. May everyone around the world have a happy New Year and a safe and easy fast.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So if you have to leave early or maybe you just want to review the content later on, don’t worry. Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” We will get all those good resources in your hands later on today. But most importantly, chat in.