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Volunteer with Shunku Llacta and Visit the Rainforests of Ecuador

Have Fun - Do Good

In June 2005, my friend Abby Jaramillo, the Executive Director of Urban Sprouts , brought six international volunteers to two rural communities in the rainforests of Ecuador, Guayabillas and Santa Rosa, with the organization Shunku Llacta. Ecuador volunteer rainforest artisan Photo: A volunteer helps to harvest fruit.

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is the international forum for discussing copyright issues, and it is the body considering the Treaty for the Visually Impaired (TVI). I'm here in Geneva for the 20th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting. I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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Copyright treaty in Geneva Advances!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We've been supportive of an effort by the World Blind Union to get an international treaty in place that sets up a global system much like the one we have today in the United States. Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay joined together to propose that WIPO consider this treaty.

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NetSquared Celebrates Progress and Looks Forward to 2015

Tech Soup

International NetSquared group leaders will also get together for training throughout the year, with our first events already planned for the United Kingdom, Cameroon, and Kenya. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in: Africa. Upcoming Events. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Join a Nonprofit Tech User Group This August

Tech Soup

Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Ben Teoh in Adelaide looks at faith and international aid. Taipei, Taiwan: PC / Web site information security: proposal for non-profit organizations. San Francisco, CA: Watch the Black Girls Code Documentary, Problem Solve w/ BGC, & Converse w/ SAP!

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How to Turn Video Views Into Life-Saving Dollars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These funds will be donated to the Diabetes Hands Foundation and they will use the donation to help the Life for a Child program, run by the International Diabetes Federation, and Insulin For Life , two global, humanitarian organizations that provide diabetes medication and supplies to children in the world’s poorest countries.

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Getting Social with Your Local Nonprofit Tech Community

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions.