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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

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To mark the date, the One Campaign has shared a research report called “ Poverty is Sexist ,” that documents how extreme poverty hurts girls and women harder and in different ways than it does boys and men, and to demand targeted action to support girls and women. The Tech Girls of Dharavi. You can make a donation here.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

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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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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

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But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. A reporter from the Seattle Times asked how the company makes sure that their day jobs actually gets done.

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Digital Platforms for Greater Impact: Examples for Foundations

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Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository. A starting point for change.”.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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It had hit India. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. I had written many business reports, nothing else.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. Three years later when we received a report back from the group about how they had done, there were five shaky signatures.

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