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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up. According to the Women and the Web report, 200 million more men have access to the Internet than women. There’s Olutosin in Lagos, Nigeria. Today, she is using technology to help fellow trafficking victims.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Learn How Your NGO Can Use Adobe Spark and Other Storytelling Tools. Mahikeng, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Morogoro, Tanzania: Technology for Livelihood Improvement.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!)

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