Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 15, 2010
One repeating theme came to me during a recent and fascinating meeting with Professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum, the Director of Rice 360, the Institute for Global Health Technologies. Her students at Rice University have been busy inventing new tools and equipment for global health. Rebecca was looking for help with a familiar problem.
Tech Soup
JULY 8, 2009
June marked the launch of two new international TechSoup partners: Japan and Kenya , bringing the total count of TechSoup Global Network partners to 24 (not including the original U.S. TechSoup Kenya is a collaborative effort by SANGONeT/NGO Pulse and Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN). Good people, good times.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. On the last stop of that trip, I went to Kenya to climb a mountain. Our connection to Kenya remains strong; we are also the guardians for one of the children from that orphanage, @sammyikua , who now studies in Maine. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 12, 2010
Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting , so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez. Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting, so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez. Tags: Fundraising storytelling. Once we launched the video on Nov.
Tech Soup
JUNE 4, 2010
This week, several TechSoup Global staffers are participating in Foundation Week in Brussels. Tags: Event. This post comes from GuideStar International chair Buzz Schmidt. Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 3, 2009
The dual purpose was to promote Comm's recently published book and to raise money for a ministry that provides clean water in Kenya. During the four-day campaign, each Tweet will leverage a 10 cent donation – up to 50,000 Tweets – from NCM Fathom to the global humanitarian organization CARE. Tags: fundraising2.0 has been raised.
Amy Sample Ward
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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