Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I also think that examining this idea in a place where the 3 areas create a very clear Venn Diagram, like India, invites a wide range of voices to the conversation. One of the participants was Pratima from Shelter Associates in Pune, India. Find out more about the conference here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Understanding and mapping your network is one of the indicators in my “Crawl Walk Run Fly” maturity of practice model and looks something like this: Click to see larger image. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. The map above depicts everyone who was tweeting during the Tweet Chat.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. Read more stories on our Local Impact Map from around the world that show the impact of technology donations on organizations and communities like yours.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Offer ways for the community to create something together We designed an interactive map function on our website that shows where all the events are taking place. It has also allowed me to highlight some of the really hot areas of the map—like the UK, India, China, US, etc.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

China, India, and most of Europe combined -- but another thing entirely to show it. XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. " Artist Jenny Odell used digital cutouts from Google Maps to create some striking images. "Farmville is so huge!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Other initiatives, like Vote Report India or the Pink Chaddi Campaign , start off with a strong focus on Collaboration around a specific event. In its first iteration, Vote Report India leveraged Co-creation by creating a platform for collectively tracking irregularities in the 2009 Indian elections. However, the focus is on Content.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. Google Docs , Google Groups , and Google Maps are also very well-known and widely used. It's the largest country in South America and it has the fastest growing economy in the region.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

In the mid-19th Century, the East India Company needed a physical space to store their piles and piles of ledgers, forms and other important artifacts that managed their transactions all over the world. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.”

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

India drafted its first data privacy bill. Finally, map out a process for actually deleting or obfuscating the data. 2018 was a seminal year for privacy. The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, spawning nearly a dozen investigations by international and US regulators over Facebook’s data practices.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Correction error: In the podcast, I suggest the East India Company first moved into their office in Britain in the 19th Century, when it was in fact the 18th Century. One disgruntled employee even diarized his distaste for the East India Company when it did away with the “yearly turtle feast.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. I’ve also done this with groups of organizations who have collectively created their network maps on the wall.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 19, 2007

This map presented at the 2006 World Water Forum in Mexico City, shows the relative "risk status" of 162 countries regarding access to safe drinking water and sanitation. If consumption per person remains steady, by 2025 we could be using 70 per cent of the total because of population growth alone.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles and methods of campaign mapping. Come to the session with your online campaign ideas, and get ready to have fun mapping out a campaign!

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For example, the GCAR platform powers the publicly-available map and database of grants which is a great way to quickly see where initiatives are being supported across the globe. Here’s an informative article by Devex on the GCAR with examples of how its data can be used and re-spun by others. .

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

I myself was also almost a human trafficking victim for the purpose of forced marriage in India. By that point, the issue of gender-based violence and trafficking had crept into so many facets of my life, prompting me to make it my life’s work to end it.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The first is our International Strategy Meetings, where we convene our founding women from 26 different countries, who come together and really examine what the local issues are, what are the global trends, what is the work that they can do in partnership, and they really map out their plan and their goals and their work for the coming year.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world. So I know there’s an example in India that nonprofits in India are using WhatsApp because, you know, it’s such a huge piece of land. Lots of ones.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2007

SK: I just completed a film called A Drop of Life , which is a film about the future of water; it's about a woman from America who comes to India to seal a deal that would put plastic prepaid credit card meters on the village water pumps so you can't get water unless you have a prepaid card. Britt Bravo: What are you working on now?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

But I could go on and on, I mean everywhere I went, there were amazing stories, and I kind of feel like now I could open up an atlas, or a map of the United States, and point to anywhere, and go there and find people who are doing this work of really trying to insure that there's healthy food available for everybody.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And interestingly, there was a group of women who really had put that on the map as well. Last year I started supporting this organization called Free Set that is a New Zealand couple that works with a co-op in Calcutta, India. This is about our community. but this is about many communities that are having similar struggles."

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