Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. My experience with the international publishers was such that I expected there would be a way to work through this issue.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Malhan’s approach to developing accessibility is informed by his experience in a developing country, namely India, where advanced technologies, like smartphones, are not as readily available or affordable. According to Malhan, the biggest challenge in the developing world for the disabled is a lack access to resources and information.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

49% of respondents cite cost-related issues as a barrier to adoption. 45% of respondents cite data security-related issues as a barrier. We need solutions that address security concerns in language organizations can recognize. 54% of respondents cite better data security as an advantage to cloud computing. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

law (this is a wildcard issue right now). This seems unreasonably modest, when Bookshare alone already has much more favorable voluntary agreements covering 20,000 English language titles and 1,000 Spanish language titles with many of the major U.S. We’ve been fighting this exact issue in the U.S. What would I work on?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. Very good question. The Bottom Line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. The most interesting part of the conversation was around what I call the “dueling moral high grounds” issue: authors rights and the rights of people with disabilities.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

India drafted its first data privacy bill. This information must be presented to data subjects “in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language.” (Art. 2018 was a seminal year for privacy. Its executives were hauled before Congressional committees. Make it easy to read and understand.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Knowledge will continue to be an issue as well, whether it is knowledge of the issue or location or knowledge of what is really needed.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

InterConnection received the computers from Microsoft, installed Windows 7 Pro and Office 2007 (Czech language version of course), and shipped 157 computers by sea. To be specific, they are our partners in Australia , New Zealand , Germany , France , Italy , India , Poland , and Romania. and everywhere else.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

That can mean, for example, language; it can mean architecture; it can mean food; it can mean artisan work, or artistic work. There's a woman in India, Darshan Shah, who started a weavers' co-op. Social enterprise and entrepreneurship started to address social issues in a community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the issues they champion have taken a backseat in people’s minds this year, as our nation’s attention has been captured by one shocking event after another. The blog’s vibrant design and vivid language warmly invite readers into Rani’s narrative.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. So using everything I’ve learned to spark action across Latin America and to create communities and inspire people to take action on social and environmental issues. for a while.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. I had an amazing opportunity to cover the civil war, but also to cover a lot of the human rights issues that were emerging as a result of the war.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

The program was presented at the Texting for Health Conference this past February, and hopes to provide the tool in multiple languages as well! *. Objective : Increase the visibilty and utilization of the Fair & Lovely Foundation’s scholarship program among women and girls in low-income groups in rural and urban India.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

"I think a lot of people perhaps have gotten a one-sided understanding of this issue of trafficking. CA: I think a lot of people perhaps have gotten a one-sided understanding of this issue of trafficking. He wrote a brilliant piece about the moral crusade of this issue, and that's not to say that it's not to be taken seriously.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

He has behavior issues. Let’s say I have a staff person or a coworker or something and there was some kind of constant issue or something. So I’m working with someone and he has an organization based in India. “More useful tips about language we should use.” That wasn’t going to help anybody.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

We should be vigilant when companies with half-a-billion dollar valuations wrap social good initiatives in shiny, marketing wrappings and assume the language of urban planning. We should also pause and note t he tech sector’s troubling tendency to turn inward while adopting the language of the public square and the commons.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

As I was traveling to 12 countries to interview women artisans, a woman in India said, "Come back in the fall and we'll teach you how to dance the dances that we perform all night to honor the mother god, Durga." I read hundreds of grantee profiles, and tried to balance the book according to the issues and the geographies that I wanted.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

Often though, action alerts and fundraising appeals are written for senior management’s approval and just use their own wonky, boiler plate language. Remember the people on your list are not Members of Congress; they are everyday people who took the time to sign up to your list because they care about the issues you are fighting for.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. BB: You said that the advisers you have are always giving you the lay of the land to tell you what are the issues that are most pressing, or which areas need the most assistance.

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