Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Bookshare.org.in (India) My South Asian trip is mainly exploratory, with one notable exception. Bookshare.org is going international, and India is one of our focus countries for this expansion. My first visit after the India Economic Summit was to National Association for the Blind (India) to see Dipendra Manocha.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

9:30am IST (Ahmedabad): NGOBOX (India). 11am IST (Dublin): Digital Charity Lab (Ireland). . – Share resources, such as ebooks, blog posts, and articles about NGO technology that you think would be useful to the followers of the Twitter Takeover. 10am BRT (Rio de Janeiro): Doare (Brazil).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2018

Nonprofits in North America, Europe, and Australia have a multitude of online fundraising services to choose from mostly thanks to their government’s efforts to build digital records and databases of legally verified nonprofits. Ketto (India). BackaBuddy (South Africa). backabuddy.co.za. Donate-ng (Nigeria). donate-ng.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

My last stop in New Delhi was to visit the American India Foundation, which is the largest Silicon Valley/India foundation. The one I was most interested in is the Digital Equalizer Program. Digital divide programs are notoriously difficult to run successfully. She's very sharp!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

4) China currently has the highest population in the world, however, by 2050 India will be the most populated country at 1,676 million (compared to China’s 1,387 million). Source: United Nations Population Fund. In the coming decades as wealth rises in Asia, so will philanthropy and with it a second wave of online activism and giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2017

Wildlife SOS , based in India, also requires donors to choose whether they want their donation to be processed in U.S. 0% accept digital payments, such as Apple Pay or Visa Checkout. Digital payments are the future of online fundraising, yet of the 25 nonprofits donated to, none of them are an early adopter.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

On Monday, April 16, TechSoup took its Digital Storytelling global with a full-day tweet chat spanning 10 time zones. Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants. led the bilingual tweet chat. Beirut, Lebanon: NetSquared Beirut.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Our Bookshare library has over 550,000 books that have been delivered digitally over 10 million times. We’re already delivering services at scale in three other countries—Canada, the UK, and India. Cheap devices and internet connectivity mean everything is digital. because we rely on the community to build the digital library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

We began with Hindi and Tamil, two of the most-spoken languages in India, and have recently added Arabic, which opened up our services to countries all across the Middle East and Northern Africa. The third blog post in this series on Bookshare International will describe our adventures creating the library’s first offerings in Arabic.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Are you ready to join a global, Storytelling conversation on Twitter at #Storymakers2014 spanning the globe from India, Libya, Kenya across Europe, Canada and the United States. Topic: AWESOME Digital Storytelling case studies. 10:00 am India Standard time / 4:30 am Coordinated Universal Time. New Zealand. Australia.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

New digital platforms and tools enable universities to operate efficiently, manage risks effectively, and coordinate resources effectively on and off campus, while reducing costs and helping the institution scale beyond traditional boundaries. For example, more than half of U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. In a small village in India, 9 year-old Fatima lives in a tiny hut with her parents Priya and Amit. Please give so that we can end childhood hunger in India and help these children realize their full potential. Setting: This is where your story happens.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2009

LifeLines India allows them to call in and —using a voice activated system in their local language — get advice about their needs. This innovative use of unified communications technology is sure to offer ideas for other programs to help bridge the digital divide.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 11, 2021

By: Richard Beighton, Chief of Resource Mobilization and Partnerships, UNICEF India. India has become the first country to report more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. Although over 160 million shots have been given, almost 32 million of these were second vaccines, meaning that only 10% of India’s 1.3

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Digital Payments on Social Networks. WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. Due to the decline in reach on social media, nonprofits should prioritize email communications and fundraising in 2018 [ Benchmarks for Success ]. Online donors most trust the.org (72%),edu (7%), and.ngo (6%) domains. Periscope Coins.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

This is the ninth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Those who register and attend all three webinars in the series will earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. As people become digitally connected, they gain access fundraise from empathetic individuals around the world. 1,171,000,000.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 29, 2014

Latest global social, digital, mobile data for ya : his report presents all the key statistics, data and behavioural indicators for social, digital and mobile channels around the world. For other reports in this series, please visit [link] H/T to Social Fish'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

We’ve already built a collection of titles in Hindi and Tamil, two of the most-spoken languages in India, and last summer we released our first accessible collection in Arabic. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

After books are scanned and uploaded into the digital Bookshare library, they are still used in their printed form by readers around the world. In the rural region of Ranipet in Tamil Nadu, India, 500 Bookshare texts, which had their spines removed for scanning, have been acquired by the Vedavalli Vidyalaya school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

So, it was really a great honor to co-teach a master class on digital strategy and two crowdfunding workshops. The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Mobilisation Lab: Started by the digital strategy team at Greenpeace International, the Digital Mobilisation Lab is comprised of a growing global network of staff and volunteers dedicated to people-powered campaigning. In India, for example, “missed calls” have become a campaign tool.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). Steve went to India for more tests. and we needed more help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 8, 2009

We just announced: Encyclopaedia Britannica Grants Digital Rights to Bookshare -- Major Reference Collections Now Accessible for Individuals with Print Disabilities Worldwide. Although it was possible, we never seriously thought about scanning the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 19, 2012

Demystifying social media - McKinsey Quarterly - Marketing & Sales - Digital Marketing : Executives certainly know what social media is. After all, if Facebook users constituted a country, it would be the world’s third largest, behind China and India.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

But while global experts search for solutions to bridge the worsening digital divide for women, it turns out the answers are at our fingertips. It’s time to take a closer look at how we can boost the feminine digital revolution—a revolution that is already underway.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 4, 2008

One Laptop per Child Lands in India: "Nicholas Negroponte has found it tough going in India. His best-known idea is the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program (BusinessWeek, 6/5/08), a plan to make a simple, $100 laptop that would create a digitally literate generation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lavelle Foundation, Bookshare has been able to work with Worth Trust, a nonprofit with offices in Chennai, India. The project's goals were to work with organizations that provide opportunities for people with disabilities and digitize a million pages of books to be added to the Bookshare collection.

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AFP Blog

JULY 18, 2012

Detroit4Detroit: Citizen Philanthropy for aDigitalWorld | Xconomy : Citizen Effect, the Washington, D.C.-based

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

In previous years, we called it our Digital Storytelling Challenge. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

Likely, most of this growth will come from China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. As new types of digital media are added to the expanding list of potential web content, we must remain steadfast in our commitment to serving up an engaging user experience and ensuring we tell a cohesive story on any device, no matter the size.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2008

The Times of India covered the story during my visit, Disabled in city help blind in US. We'll expect to be sending some digital images of books from the U.S. Plus, as we get more permissions from India publishers, we'll be able to source English language books locally. for proofreading in the future.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., Digital signatures for parents/guardians wanting to sign up their children with disabilities for Bookshare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. . Tags: india. The full list of winners has been posted on the NASSCOM blog.

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