Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The participating NGOs include Women’s Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia I’ll be co-training with Kalyani Menon-Sen, a feminist activist, researcher and adult educator based in Delhi, India to deliver sessions on the Networked NGO, networks, and networking with social media. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

7000 kilometres away in India, Haiyya is training the next generation of community organisers. Once they’ve completed the training program, Haiyya Fellows campaign on civic issues in their own neighbourhoods. There’s something each Fellow has experienced that sparks their desire to become a change agent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

The Treaty of Marrakesh, Top Issues: What’s the goal of the Treaty? First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Here’s our laymen’s take on the major provisions of the Treaty. Articles 5 and 6.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Across the nation, as summer draws to an end and mother nature prepare for her fall showstopper, so does the nonprofit sector. ” – Azim Premji, one of the wealthiest and most generous business leaders in India. There is no one size fits all answer to this question. Invest in your donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Learn who your followers are, what issues they care about, which posts are firing up your base, and what types of content are gaining steam and going viral. In particular, their free reports give you your social audience’s pulse on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, and other platforms. 2 – Make Your Website Shine.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Although video is popular issues like bandwidth speed, which affect many communities, photo may be the best storytelling option.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Its key points are: • A recommendation that import and export be permitted under national law in all WIPO-member countries between Trusted Intermediaries (“TIs”), a narrow class of nonprofits and government agencies with a primary mission to serve the print disabled, with the option of charging TIs for the privilege to do so. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Succession issues: how do we build an organization that will outlive our involvement, and how to approach recruiting a successor to the founder, was a session that I moderated. We've come to recognize the limitations of the nation state, especially around innovation. Roger Martin, dean of the U.

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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. national experience. We did some exploration of the likely impacts on the market for audio books: that seems to be one of the major policy concerns about the text-to-speech issue.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

According to ASSISTECH, it is available in India, the United States, and other select countries. Wired spoke to Chris Danielsen, a spokesperson for the National Federation of the Blind. The SmartCane is available at varying prices depending on where it is to be shipped. Concerns About Smart Canes. And is the price right?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S. 2 — Make Your Website Shine.

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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. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# So What and Who Cares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. She quickly became a national figure with regular appearances on talk shows to discuss the problems with public education in Brazil, despite threats from teachers, administrators, and even fellow students.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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JULY 18, 2013

Someone in Indiana could connect with someone in India around a cause they care about." "The But how do you engage the nation when franking isn''t a well-known term and it''s mostly hurting disenfranchised communities? That''s a serious issue. live stream issues] And B-Corps – I want to make money and I''m ok with that.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The IT press was buzzing in late April about the free portable WiFi embedded by Microsoft in select May 6 Forbes Magazine print issues. Available on news stands now, so check one out if you see a new issue while in line at the grocery store. This is technology for good news from India. Strange News. Yes that's right.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Gen Z is more interested in using digital tools for social good than social currency, partly because living in a digital information age the world’s social change issues are thrust in their faces.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Technology innovation is also driven by government and national security concerns, and surveillance technology is increasingly used to monitor citizens, leading to the “fracture” of the World Wide Web as we know it and to decreased entrepreneurship. Technology innovations in energy and water also take prominence.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

He went around the world collecting traditional contemporary folk music, assembled those into themes on CDs, and began national distribution. 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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

And when Congress presses the president to act on a foreign policy issue, the president responds. When is the last time you read a book or a magazine article about a social/environmental/political issue that not only addressed the problems, but also solutions? So refreshing.

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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. They whisk people away from their everyday lives and connect them with ideas that can revolutionize how they think. World Food Program USA: Rani’s Story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2014

“Social Media for Social Good and Nonprofit Tech for Good have been my primary resources for learning how to communicate Indian conservation issues on a global scale. Wildlife SOS – India. National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. Digital Engagement/Production Coordinator. ” Vinay Datla.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The United Nations Development Programme is bringing #GivingTuesday to many countries and they are working in to celebrate local community heroes and highlight their giving stories- showing the world that everyone, everywhere can give back to their community. Here’s an inspiring example from India.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Last week at the United Nations General Assembly , Equal Measures 2030 launched a multi-country policymaker survey that explored perceptions of progress on gender-related issues and access to and use of data to inform decisions. Gender issues were not considered a priority in all areas of policymaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day. Objective : 1) Measure the effectiveness among 18-45 year olds of event sponsorship and advertising in real-time and 2) Measure this audience’s interest in green issues raised by the global concerts and sponsors. But, for creative juices, let’s show off some coolness.). *.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. After that he was a freelance journalist, writing for The New York Times , The Nation , Harper's Weekly , Mother Jones , Redbook. among many other publications.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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. National Wildlife Federation , for example, is very active on various social networking websites and they immediately appeared in several places on my Jumo page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We are basically a national giving circle, we have over 150 chapters nationwide. It just kind of hit me that that same format would work but - my passion is women's issues and specifically women in poverty internationally. And they would help people in their community. BB: How do you choose the organizations that you support?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The Somaly Mam organization focuses on rehabilitation for girls who are victims of sex trafficking, and that's a really, really tough issue, but really important. In 2007, we went to India, and we visited a program called Matrichaya , which we'll be supporting again in January of 2011. Actually, they're jewelry (e.g.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

The next area, where Women's Earth Alliance works, is in India , where we learned from our colleagues on the ground that support around creating sustainable agriculture would be the best thing we could do to help. Finally, we just have an amazing website and a blog , and we have a Facebook group , and a Cause , and we're on Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And so I think it's easy to forget that we have this global impact as a nation of individuals, right? And in that book we were really interested in hearing the voices, the stories of people around the world that were addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty. So just trying to get us to really see that.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

What about Portland’s network of grass-roots nonprofits , local meet-ups as well as national leaders ? Will the private sector seek out partnerships that support and empower grass-roots organizations who are confronting the most urgent social problems, specifically issues of social justice, child care, education and economic inequality?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present. Through my work with Packard Foundation and with IIE and the State Department, I have have the opportunity to work with NGOs from places like Pakistan, Rwanda, India, and the Middle East.

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