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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Tags: print disabled print disabilities Benetech publishers blind SCCR Bookshare WIPO SCCR20.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Vikas Nath talking about gender and ICTs in good governance

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch, who is based in the Netherlands and most recently working in Ghana, developed a 12-step vlogging process to help a network in Ghana (GINKS) produce an ICT4D stories blog. Click To Play Vikas Nath explains his idea that empowerment of women in governance using ICTS should pass via livelihoods.

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Health Systems 'Ask the Expert' Session Starts Today

Forum One

The theme for this session is "Lessons Learned in Strengthening Health Systems for Tuberculosis Control in Developing Countries" HSAN Member Daniel Osei of the Ghana Health Service will serve as the resource person to respond to your questions relating to the over-all topic. Tags: Global Health. Start discussion?,

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Freedom Fone was introduced at two radio stations: Radio Maria in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Volta Star radio in the Volta region of Ghana. Making radio more accessible in Ghana. The project will be atRite FM, a radio station outside the greater Accra region in Ghana. .

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A Few Self-Financed Learning Journeys Sam Mayfield has launched a new blog called Sam Land to raise money for and document his trip to Ghana in November. He will be bringing equipment and provide skills training to the first Community Access television station in Ghana. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? In Ghana people are interested in knowing about new tools, because they need to stay in touch with what???s An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t and that???

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