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

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This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Please keep in mind .

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

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The human mind, it turns out, is an extremely efficient manager of the chaos of life. While it may be obvious that programmatic strategy – decisions that affect your coworkers, your volunteers, or your organization's mission – shouldn't be based on "snap judgments", it's incredibly hard to make the human mind work any other way.

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