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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $31 million investment in the Partnership for Healthy Cities and the addition of six cities to the initiative to create safer and healthier urban environments: Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Córdoba, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Warsaw, Poland.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. And all this is on top of Martus work we're actively engaged with in Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now.

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Why Social Movements Need Stories

Tech Soup

Twitter feeds with hashtags like #Egypt and #ArabSpring were stories unfolding by the minute, documenting the revolution and how the world felt about it, in real time. But maybe it's easier to relate to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and Gaza because these stories are about universal human rights such as freedom.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. Global University of Islamic Finance , in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is working on developing Islamic oriented socially conscious investing in cooperation with Sharia law. The Challenge of Philanthropy to the Muslim World.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

ASU Lodestar Center

Social media, particularly, have proven to be powerful and exceedingly important, especially as we watch the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. If anyone ever once doubted the energy and organizing force of technology, rest assured they dont anymore. Central Ave.

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A Guide To Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It comes from Digiactive , a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism and was written by Dan Schultz , a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He was one of 27 individuals to win the first Knight News Challenge. It is a quick read and very useful.

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Wendy Sternberg Leaves Her Medical Career to Heal the World

See3

Wendy just spent the several months in Thailand as part of the very exclusive Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University. At See3 we have the pleasure of collaborating with Wendy to help her find a way to document and distribute video from her upcoming concert tour of Egypt and Jordan.