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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. It has eight hours of battery life to keep it going when the power runs out. Connecting to the Internet Digital Divide GreenTech International Networks Green IT WiFi tsgreentechnology BRCK Ushahidi' Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project.

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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

An NGO with A National Mandate. MyDigitalBridge is an NGO that started its work fairly recently. " MyDigitalBridge was founded soon thereafter that to refurbish PC donations for use in schools, recycle end-of-life IT equipment, and figure out how to get broadband to rural communities throughout the country.

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Seeds for a Future Part 2: Understanding communities and traditions

ASU Lodestar Center

This post is a continuation of Seeds for a Future Part 1: Getting your NGO off the ground. When starting a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in a community other than your own, it is important to recognize that there are cultural barriers (try to call these "opportunities") to consider. Like this article? Get another!

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Goal is to provide web presence for most ngos in Romania. It also has events with a goal of being a news agency for NGOS.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them. This is on a personal computing level.

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. For example, in my own life, one of the things I started was the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport. He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. That's what that is.

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