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20 Crowdfunding Services for Nonprofits Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Donate-ng (Nigeria). BackaBuddy (South Africa). backabuddy.co.za. donate-ng.com. M-Changa (Kenya).

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The State of the Internet 2014

Tech Soup

Mary Meeker of the of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, does a yearly report on current state of the Internet and IT at about half way through the year. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China.

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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . It doesn’t require internet access. The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform?

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Mobile-First Still Matters

Forum One

Today, it is projected that nearly three-quarters (72.6%) of internet users will access the web solely via their smartphones by 2025 —this is equivalent to nearly 3.7 Likely, most of this growth will come from China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. billion people across the globe. The genesis of the mobile-first approach.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Internet use has reached 45% of the total population in LMIC, with 5.1 Digital Agriculture Product Manager, World Food Programme Digital Transformation Unit, Nairobi. Casper has 12 years of experience in managing scalable digital solutions in developing countries. Thankfully, this is changing. Casper Stryndom.

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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. That’s just the beginning.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Revenues from developed countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Denmark, where subscription fees are comparable to those in the United States, help us underwrite the cost of memberships in developing world countries such as India, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. Our team is brimming with ideas for making that vision a reality.

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