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Technology for All: From Gandhi to TED - Part 1

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology has the potential to improve the lives of millions across the world. In this two-part series I explore the concept of “Technology for All” and Benetech’s commitment to both ensuring that the technology required to meet a social need is developed and that it reaches far beyond the 10 percent of people who can afford it.

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BiGTech India Connects Nonprofits with IT Students

Tech Soup

Joy of Giving Week is a "festival of philanthropy" held October 2 through 8 all over India in conjunction with Mohandas Gandhi's birthday. To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students.

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4 Global Higher Education Trends for 2022

Saleforce Nonprofit

Universities are learning from other industries and accelerating business model innovation, with a focus on hybrid learning and teaching. More and more universities are adopting a “customer mindset” from other industries, and implementing learner-centric operating models. Below are for global trends to consider for 2022 and beyond.

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WORTH Trust Solves Tech Woes to Help More Kids in India

Tech Soup

India is home to 70 million people with different needs and abilities. WORTH, which stands for Workshop for Rehabilitation and Training of the Handicapped, aims to create opportunities for vocational training and avenues for employment for people with different needs in India. Creating Opportunities for Training and Employment.

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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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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Opening Session at NASSCOM and Social Innovation Winners

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. Can we take our collective knowledge and use it to drive public services in many states to a new level of transparency? Can we come up with creative models to build new industries to serve the world in a way that hasn't be done before?

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