Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend. While visiting the country, I met with members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) who are using a growing collection of technology tools to confront reported human rights incidents. Human rights monitors in Nigeria continue to be harassed.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Bill Gates sees measurement as the path to follow to meet and overcome that challenge: Given how tight budgets are around the world, governments are rightfully demanding effectiveness in the programs they pay for. A recent national survey of Ethiopia’s vaccination coverage reported vastly different results from the government’s own estimates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors. Freecharity.org.uk

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. We were supposed to start our visit with a very high government official, but instead Kipp took me over to Nairobi Women’s Hospital. Visiting the Hon.

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