article thumbnail

Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. The article goes on to explain that while repressive regimes around the world may have fallen behind their tech-savvy opponents, many governments have begun to climb the steep learning curve and turn the new Internet tools to their own, antidemocratic purposes.

article thumbnail

Building a Global Library

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A tech guy from Egypt was the standout moment for me so far. I was attending a session organized by the library association, IFLA, and he got up and talked about how Egypt does not have a culture of reading. His point was the 5 million Internet users in Egypt are the people who do read.

Library 100
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Racing Through the Sahara for South African NGOs

Tech Soup

As a sponsor of this fundraising run in cooperation with TechSoup Egypt and TechSoup Kenya , TechSoup Global is proud to support SANGONeT and the runners as they make their journey through the Sahara.

article thumbnail

Free Webinar December 8: The Capital Campaign

Tech Soup

In her sixteen years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns; helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals; and has trained more than 15,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the fifty United States, in all aspects of development.

article thumbnail

Corporate and Foundation Grantseeking: Free Webinar July 12

Tech Soup

In her 17 years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns, helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 20,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the 50 United States, in all aspects of development. Reach her at linda [at] cvfundraising [dot] com.

article thumbnail

Getting Your Board and CEO to Embrace Fundraising: GiftWorks Free Webinar June 27

Tech Soup

In her 17 years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns, helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 20,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the 50 United States, in all aspects of development. Reach her at linda [at] cvfundraising [dot] com.

Mexico 44
article thumbnail

Advancing the New Machine: A Recap from the Human Rights and Technology Conference

Tech Soup

Namely, while activists use technology to organize, authoritarian regimes use technology to censor information, increase the channels of surveillance on its citizens, or in the extreme case, cut off telecommunications entirely like in Egypt.