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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Kopernik technology marketplace is a Bali, Indonesia-based online marketplace of innovative, life-changing technologies designed for the developing world. Its eight major islands (in terms of landmass) are Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes), and Irian Jaya (the western half of Papua New Guinea).

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

Climate change was a major topic of discussion in the keynotes (one CEO joked, "welcome to the world congress of climate change"), and both Steven Lewis and Sheila Watt-Cloutier spoke powerfully about places where human life is already threatened or wiped out due to global warming.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

I’ve lived here most of my life. You require some dollars, you’re fundraising, because of that face, that person whose life is different because you walk alongside them. . So imagine that this is a gentleman who is well into the last years of his life, who I did not imagine he would know how to use his iPhone in this way.

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Some Africa Links

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The Mali blog brings a much sharper focus to Malilady's everyday life in Bamako. I've found it the most frequent source of news on the current crisis in Guinea. And her Flickr photostream is well worth perusing. SocioLingo's Mali Blog. Covering all of Africa isn't enough for this prolific writer. Timbuktu Chronicles.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

I sort of saw his participation and undercutting the democracy in my hometown as indicative of what Freeport-McMoRan was doing in Cancer Alley in Louisiana, which I later went and visited and saw their impact there, and in Papua New Guinea, where they have some of the worst mines and human rights abuses that we have documented on file, and I started (..)

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