Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

Mobile-first can mean different things to different people: for developers, it may mean writing code for smaller viewports first with the goal of creating cleaner code; while for designers, it may mean starting with mobile designs with the goal of prioritizing its user experience. billion people across the globe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Jennifer is a textile and surface designer, and owner of Monaluna , a small business specializing in organic cotton fabrics. Jennifer Moore, Monaluna Designs: How I Have Fun, Do Good I find my joy from making things. Today's guest blogger is Jennifer Moore. You can follow her blog at [link]. Especially beautiful, useful things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

In 2010, I launched the Networked Nonprofit with a flurry of speaking and training gigs literally around the world, while also designing and facilitating many workshops, peer learning groups, and coaching grantees as Visiting Scholar.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Built on our Martus technology, Mobile Martus is designed to bring secure data collection, storage, and backup closer to activists working in the field. The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. As CEO of charity:water, Scott is often visiting charity:water projects all over the work. He is using Twitter for donor accountability.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. Its unique way of working is project management heavy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Areas served: US, India, South Africa. Grant research tip : As you look over the list and peruse potential funders, take notes of those who best align with your work. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The Marrakesh Treaty was designed to address the biggest remaining obstacle: the existing system of providing books to society did not meet the needs of people with disabilities. And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

We got respondents in 88 countries and the project was done in collaboration with 36 partners around the world. Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. The survey was fielded in February and March 2012.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

In 2005, Shannon Keith visited India and was confronted by the harsh realities of brothels and prostitution. This was the inspiration for the International Princess Project and their product Punjammies - pajama pants made out of beautiful sari fabric, made by the women, and sold online.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe’s software donation programs through TechSoup help organizations design powerful print collateral, create video accounts of their successes, build their web presence, and more. Check out some of the recent entries: The American Indian Foundation takes you on a tour of India’s slums. Youth Services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. That’s the theory at least.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

Selene Chew developed the BlindSpot as a project for her senior thesis at the University of Singapore. Designed by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi's Assistive Technologies Group (ASSISTECH), the SmartCane draws inspiration from a surprising source: bats. Concerns About Smart Canes. And is the price right?

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. The project is active in Iraq and Kenya. Nadia Roumani from Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design agreed with Shahed Amanullah, talking about being brave and taking design risks and possible mistakes.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2016

Together, we can shape our destiny and design a future that works for us all. Prior to this role, she led customer experience at start-ups in the Boston-area and worked as a strategy execution consultant, implementing international projects and seminars for Fortune 100 clients. This is the goal of the Inclusive Innovation Competition.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

This strategy has evolved over the past year and includes a range of projects and programs throughout the world. In India, one out of two SAP employees is volunteering on a community project focused on improving educational opportunities through tutoring or enhancing school infrastructure and resources.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Recent events in Iran and India showed Twitter's ability to build a groundswell and deploy rapid response messaging, albeit in a much less urgent sense in holding rallies and actions related to climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

By chance this morning, I discovered the blog of my one twitter followers, Sumitroy001 who works with ngos and social media in India. One of the lectures in this course was on the topic of Social Visualization and delivered by Martin Wattenberg from IBM. ( Many Eyes is one of his projects at IBM).

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Recent events in Iran and India showed Twitter's ability to build a groundswell and deploy rapid response messaging, albeit in a much less urgent sense in holding rallies and actions related to climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Details about the project have been hard to come by over the past few months, but here’s what we know: What. Hughes also enlisted Scott Thomas , former director of design with the Obama campaign and author of Designing Obama. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is technology for good news from India. Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Accessibility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The name is a misnomer: it’s designed for all people with print disabilities. This is an effort to create a voluntary project between the publishers and the Trusted Intermediaries. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today. The Proposals A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I studied at Penn State University, working towards a self-designed major in web and multimedia design (when it was just basic HTML and Macromedia Director). I had dreams of designing the websites for Disney and hoped to score a big corporate job after graduation. I also wasn't able to shift my major that late in the game.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2006

Here are some of the winners from last year's competition and their descriptions of their projects. Our for-profit social venture will bring breakthrough low-cost water purification technology to the developing world, starting in India. Pretty cool, huh? Freepledge is a finalist in the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Challenge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

“Office space is rented by the day or week, not the month or year, because more people are in the field — testing, evaluating, and reporting on myriad pilot projects.” While these scenarios may not play out exactly as described, technology and related data will help us to design more informed scenarios.

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