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

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This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). in the developing world where access to the Internet may not be very. landlines to focus on developing the use of mobiles and the mobile Internet. Can you remember when a huge mobile. a device only seen on TV!

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. It had been bombed.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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I actually started out with International Studies, and more academic. Any woman who is just coming on from Kashmir has access to some kind of connectivity to either an Internet cafe, or a cell phone, or a computer at her work. They came from Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, from all over, some of the most unheard places of the world.

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