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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now.

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. t have a habit of reading on the web. And Netsquared.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He also makes a false distinction between online/offline or as Allison and I have called it “online and onland&# activism. One, the key issue facing activists who wish for real social change is the mismatch between the scale of our problems (global) and the natural scale of our sociality (local).

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