Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. You can read more about it on the Tunisia Team’s blog.

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Social Media Tunisia Morocco Yemen 116

Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries. There is some great insight into the need for the Open Data movement to be more inclusive as well as explanations of why big data gathering should be more strategic.

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Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Africa Data 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Dipendra and I have been talking about working together for years, but during this meeting we were able to get down and plan out our work phase by phase. Technology we take for granted in English nowadays needs much more development, including optical character recognition, data entry, searching and voice synthesis.

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India Tunisia Language Phase 100