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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

In celebration of the occasion of getting to meet this huge hero of mine, I’ve outlined five ways that companies, institutions, and nonprofits can harness technological innovations to advance financial inclusion and empower the world’s most vulnerable people: 1. Crowdfunding to unlock empathy and investment capital. 1,171,000,000.

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The State of the Internet 2014

Tech Soup

The high Internet growth countries are now India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, and Philippines. One of the most interesting findings is how technology is getting less expensive. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China.

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Mobile-First Still Matters

Forum One

Likely, most of this growth will come from China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Technology is constantly on the move and best practices will continue to shift for everything digital, but all-in-all, considering a mobile-first approach today is still relevant and still worth the effort.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Jakarta, Indonesia: Youtube for Nonprofits. Mahikeng, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Ilorin, Nigeria: Recession: Reviving the Nation's Economy Through Technology. Morogoro, Tanzania: Technology for Livelihood Improvement. Saturday, September 9, 2017.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. In technology for good and social media, it’s Sina Weibo or ????.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy. That's the first thing: you do not have to be technical. So you do what you can. So we do that.

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