Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

My last stop in New Delhi was to visit the American India Foundation, which is the largest Silicon Valley/India foundation. I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. Second, they focus on project based learning, where students use the computers to complete projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

Networked NGO. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Current growth is occurring in parts of the world where “NGO” and “ONG” are commonly used terms and in regions where “nonprofit” and “charity” are more common, many nonprofits and charities are purchasing the domains (they are sold as a bundle) and having them forward to their.ORG website(s).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September; we've now had several months to consider the findings and talk to some of you about what you think. It turns out that NGOs are trying out an array of cloud services. For the global NGO sector, cloud computing has arrived.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. Many NGOs Find Cloud Computing Confusing: Why? Cloud Contradictions in the NGO Sector. The global NGO average is 36%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. They partner with a range of NGOs to create an ongoing community video unit to support the NGO's programs by placing a full-time trainer in the NGO for a one-year period.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

Technology product donations, training, and nonprofit data are all part of TechSoup Global’s offering to civil society in India. Our BigTech program is run by our local partner, the NASSCOM Foundation in India. million NGOs in India. According to the Indian Central Statistical Office, there are 3.3

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. This NGO runs a primary day school, a residential high school, and a residential polytechnic college. Childhood Cancer Support in Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

This NGO is at the initial stages of its development and is yet to be registered. I like how video blogging can build a bridge to the west for small ngos working in a developing country. and founded by Gaurav Sharma. The site provides contact information. This is very powerful for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. This NGO runs a primary day school, a residential high school, and a residential polytechnic college. Childhood Cancer Support in Canada.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. 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. software.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

We got respondents in 88 countries and the project was done in collaboration with 36 partners around the world. Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. The survey was fielded in February and March 2012.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. TechSoup Brasil is a project of Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (ATN). ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). This is an effort to create a voluntary project between the publishers and the Trusted Intermediaries.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

This strategy has evolved over the past year and includes a range of projects and programs throughout the world. In India, one out of two SAP employees is volunteering on a community project focused on improving educational opportunities through tutoring or enhancing school infrastructure and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. We received many reader tweets from this and also the media itself.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. My holy grail would be something ongoing along the lines of the project in India. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is technology for good news from India. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. The ideas submission process started last week and will be followed by online conversations, online community voting, jury voting, and a hackathons for the best projects in each of the countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. But I knew nothing about international relations, development, political science, civil society,et al.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. People are comparing this venture to Google’s Project Loon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Note from Beth: While I’m facilitating “Networked NGO Workshops” in Delhi for Packard grantees in India, I’ve lined up a few guest posts. Have set goals, but be flexible about how you reach them That’s Richard Tate’s advice to nonprofits looking to make a game.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And this also led me to work with a lot of social projects because it happens a lot of times the same, right? I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

In Africa, we're running capacity-building trainings, and supporting women in launching sustainable businesses, and viable projects, to bring clean water to their communities. These women are going to be partnering with the teams who are going back into their communities with seed grants to launch their projects.

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