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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

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Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. I’m well acquainted with the big digital inclusion projects in the U.S. and was completely surprised at how African projects like MyDigitalBridge are getting low-cost Internet to low-income people in a mostly rural country. An NGO with A National Mandate.

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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

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One initial reason Microsoft Citizenship got interested in refurbishment was because of the digital divide, which persists today. Access to the Internet and computers is still a serious issue for most people in the developing world and even the U.S. It's Not Just About the Environment. Image: Sean Nicholson. spanhidden.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. gear up to administer standardized tests digitally next year. Big Data and the Internet of Things. MIT Technology Review declared 2013 the year of the Internet of Things.

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