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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. Today, she is using technology to help fellow trafficking victims.

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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. 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. Though the list above includes mobile Internet-related services, some of the. a device only seen on TV!

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Edwin, who explained the process of completing the standard rape reporting form paperwork while treating a rape victim. Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform. So, we fill in for them. Visiting the Hon.

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