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Getting Around Internet Censorship: VPN

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Last month I did a Networked NGO training in Dubai for Pakistan NGOs where I experienced Internet censorship first hand. Unfortunately, yesterday, the Pakistan government decided to block Twitter – after we had just gotten everyone comfortable tweeting!

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Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates

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Like Marion Conway, I was struck by this photo of him pointing to data handwritten on the walls = tracking immunization records from a rural health clinic in Ethiopia. All this information goes into a government information system to generate regular reports. 3. It’s About Sense-Making, Not Tools.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

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Seattle, Washington: What You Need to Know About Board Governance. Taipei, Taiwan: NGO要怎麼搞群眾募資?- 綠盟經驗談. Left photo : Gregory Munyaneza / NetSquared Rwanda / CC BY. Center photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY. Right photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY. Thursday, October 12, 2017.

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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And the circumstances under which user data is provided to governments, or human rights information and accounts are taken down from services are not always transparent. Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference.

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Visualizing the World's Seven Billion

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This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Aging poses a challenge because by 2050, the number of working-age people available to support each person aged 65 or older will decline by half worldwide, straining government social support and retirement financing.

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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Idea Constructor. The governance issue is very interesting. Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. The presentation is here.

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Meet Michaela Hackner: BlogHer and Nonprofit Techie

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Michaela Hackner, Kalabird. It's funny, I stumbled into blogging when I worked for the government and wasn't challenged, and I had no access to FTP and wanted to keep working on my web skills. No, I'm not blogging on the plane! I wrote it in advance). The panel is about using Web2.0 for fundraising strategies.

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