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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. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

reported that this year there are over 5 billion mobile subscriptions. A Mobiles for Development, global research study commissioned by UNICEF. The same report mentions a study by Ericsson. According to the report the mobile has “helped reduce vulnerability and increase. Can you remember when a huge mobile.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Edwin, who explained the process of completing the standard rape reporting form paperwork while treating a rape victim. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. So, we fill in for them. Visiting the Hon.

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