Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. You can register here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

Jane Meseck , senior director of global programs at Microsoft Philanthropies. Janet Mawlyoo , executive director, Kenya Community Development Foundation. Cecily Walker , systems librarian at the Vancouver BC Public Library. It is one of the very few tech conferences where that is the case. Philanthropy. Law and Advocacy.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

About a year ago in Kenya, we launched ChildCount+, which helps community health care workers register children under-5 and pregnant mothers in their communities and facilitates monitoring their health. In the 180 clinics spanning two districts where the system has been tested, we’ve been getting roughly a 90% reporting rate.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!" t have a clue."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

Can you talk a little bit about what the crisis is, and what the connection is between today's food system and climate change? If you add up the whole food system, the whole food sector, what you find is that it contributes to one-third of all of the man-made greenhouse gas emissions. We are co-producers, then, in the food system.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

It's another to have the education to support that desire, to support that change, and so we're looking at long-term, sort of systemic and generational change, not necessarily just short-term fixes, and that takes pretty profound work and education to do. And then, of course, we have a strong commitment to economic development, as well.

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And for those that aren’t aware in relation to the construction industry, you know, construction globally and in the United States has continued to grow and hasn’t stopped throughout the pandemic. And, you know, he actually, you know, in his business had Project Launch as a formal product that they did for major hospital systems.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Rosalind Franklin. Wangari Maathai. Nellie Bly.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Every month, our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: DIY Donor Management System Selection. Busia, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Joins MLH Hackathon 3 December 2016. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Storytelling 2016.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. Digital Inclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. We didn't just dig holes, and build eco-sand composting toilets, and rainwater harvesting systems in schools, and BioSand water filters. This training was tremendous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 and has been used for many other projects, including tracking disaster relief efforts in Haiti. More recently, the London Tube used it to track disruptions from the Tube strike. They’re looking for volunteers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

So I started to understand that there was a system at play that needs to change. And there are women who choose to get ahead by emulating the systems that we have. I worked in East Africa with an organization called Care Kenya, working with women around sustainable agriculture issues. About 17 of our products are Fair Trade.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Nairobi, Kenya Next I headed to Nairobi, Kenya. 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.

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