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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

The LIN mission is to foster a culture of philanthropy and social responsibility by providing support services to local nonprofits, skilled volunteers, and donors who are committed to building strong communities. English is increasingly favored as a second language. There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools in different cultures around the world. The new textbook teaches the use of Khmer language Free and Open Source applications, such as OpenOffice, Mekhala (Firefox) and Moyura (Thunderbird), which have been fully translated to Khmer language (Cambodian). He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

That facilitator has to be able to manage many different personalities, the different cultures, different experiences. And there was a lot of cultural misunderstandings, something very basic. Chemical health in the Southeast Asian community continues to be an issue and a lot of it is cultural. You’ve got me fired up.”