Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. or Code for Oakland ).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But did you know that our work is global? TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables civil society organizations and changemakers around the world to gain effective access to the resources they need to design and implement technology solutions for a more equitable planet. Find your local #Tech4Good group.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Computer Tutoring (Graphic Design). Kakamega Town, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Regional Meeting /Kakamega County. But we are prepared for Halloween, since we spent the month in costume dressed as (social media) surgeons! Tuesday, October 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! You can register here. Players, who collectively average about 30 years old in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. We connect the local with global resources.” Dara Westling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 60 cities. Vancouver, British Columbia: Design an Exceptional Digital Experience. Busia, Kenya: Stop Cyberbullying Day SCD 2016. Monday, July 11, 2016. Tuesday, July 12, 2016.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2010

This week, several TechSoup Global staffers are participating in Foundation Week in Brussels. This post comes from GuideStar International chair Buzz Schmidt. Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog. read more.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

We''re a [global movement]([link] with chapters in 20 countries. Toronto, Ontario: Graphic Design Hacks for Nonprofits. Busia, Kenya: Beyond Today’s Internet Experiencing: Smart Future Conference Kenya. Join them every month for a dose of community invigoration! Monday, April 13, 2015. Tuesday, April 14, 2015.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Busia, Kenya: Net2Kenya Joins Hour of Code 2015. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

Guide released today by MobileActive, a global network of organizations and. election monitoring Macedonia and Kenya; among women voters in Saudi Arabia, and. MobileActive series of Strategy Guides is designed to equip organizations around. registration, and election monitoring campaigns, finds a MobileActive Strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Regardless of how well-designed or technologically sound the tool, if people aren’t already using that tool then they won’t turn to it in a time of disaster. Indirect Content.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Accessibility. CNET Coverage on Digital Wallets.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

For those not familiar with that term, program management includes representing the owner or the nonprofit at every step of the development process from, you know, land acquisition, going through due diligence, design, preconstruction, and the construction to move in phase. . And that was the assumption. We started doing master plans.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice. I'm like, "Let's just do it!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. Then we would design the projects and implement them top down. I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Rosalind Franklin. Wangari Maathai. Coco Chanel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

The summer before my last year in college, I participated in a summer program in Philadelphia that was designed to teach young people organizing skills around poverty and homelessness issues. It was the first experience that I had with social movement organizing. I was hooked from that moment on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. As long as we have massive global poverty, we really can't solve any of our other biggest problems because if you have people who are starving, they're going to do anything to stay alive. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

was designed for Africa and costs more. We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? The cost for each device is between $20 and $30. A similar device called the Hippo Roller.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya. Response was laughter).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. When we look at environmental challenges, we can't avoid the question of women's role within designing the solutions. There is not a shortage of resources. There are solutions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I worked in East Africa with an organization called Care Kenya, working with women around sustainable agriculture issues. The envisioned and imagined space where disparate fabrics and colors and designs can come together and tell one story. And interestingly, there was a group of women who really had put that on the map as well.

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