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Lame spam of the day: Meeting invitation from George Adoo

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My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in (Republic of Ghana) , my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip to England. left in fixed / suspense account in a bank here in GHANA ,he used my name as his only son for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund.

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Weekly update from PND

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As part of the agreement, both organizations will target financial institutions serving the needs of vulnerable populations and provide financial capital and training in support of the development of the education sector in the target markets.

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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As a geek who is trying to apply tech for good, it is instructive to hear the critiques. People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India.

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Women, Girls, Education and Global Health: Interview with Carinne Brody

Have Fun - Do Good

She is conducting an evaluation of a reproductive health voucher program in Uganda and Cambodia as part of her dissertation, and she co-instructs the International Maternal and Child Health Seminar, and the Maternal and Child Health Core course at UC Berkeley. Carinne Brody is a doctoral candidate in public health at UC Berkeley.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

You’ve likely encountered it when you call a customer service number and are prompted with instructions to press numbers for different issues or service departments.) . Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Making radio more accessible in Ghana. Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. .

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you were creating some instructional materials about mobile video blogging in a developing country, like say Cambodia, what are the most important points to cover? When I got home, I remembered the work of colleague Joitske Hulsebosch who has taught video blogging in Ghana. This lead me to a little experiment with Blip.TV

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