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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

According to the Women and the Web report, 200 million more men have access to the Internet than women. A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. There’s Olutosin in Lagos, Nigeria. The future of our world depends on it.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

reported that this year there are over 5 billion mobile subscriptions. The same report mentions a study by Ericsson. According to the report the mobile has “helped reduce vulnerability and increase. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. Can you remember when a huge mobile.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip.

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