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Samaschool Uses Tech to Empower Low-Income People

Tech Soup

This trend has been gaining steam and is expected to have global implications. As the technological barrier to entry increases, those who are born in some demographics or geographic areas are being left behind. Full disclosure: Leila Janah, founder and CEO of the Sama Group, is a board member at TechSoup.)

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Maximizing Your Student Success on Salesforce

Cloud 4 Good

Institutions and their students made a switch, seemingly overnight, from in-person academia to a fully virtual online learning experience and continue to operate in hybrid learning models. We witnessed an example of this phenomenon most recently, and perhaps most profoundly, with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

What are they like: what are the demographics, the data, the stories? We are at a very interesting time – with shifts happening locally and globally, governments changing, and new paradigms emerging. I’ve love for my library to be both a physical and an online learning community. But think about it in more detail.

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