Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. In the rural region of Ranipet in Tamil Nadu, India, 500 Bookshare texts, which had their spines removed for scanning, have been acquired by the Vedavalli Vidyalaya school.

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JUNE 28, 2021

We are working on building a diverse team and ensuring that each member of the team that joins us feels their voice is valuable regardless of their identity. And while Pride is recognized on a large scale for only one month out of the year, to me it is truly a daily mindset of education and elevating marginalized voices.

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JULY 11, 2013

In India, for example, “missed calls” have become a campaign tool. Greenpeace India has used missed calls as a cheap and quick way to engage people and build lists. In one campaign, citizens rallied to oppose wide scale coal mining in central-eastern India ’s forests.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. We just announced a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative , to increase our impact in India by an order of magnitude. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India. SK: I have been involved in this project since I met Trish in India in 2018. At least three different organizations are required to be on the team so that no one entity can have a louder voice over others. TP: It’s the flexibility of use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? Our choices and our voices matter. Which is why LinkedIn discussions are important.

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2009

The project comes from Tactical Technology, inspired their info-activism camp in India. It's great to see and hear some familiar voices, including Sam Gregory from Witness, Dina Mehta, and Marek Tuszynski. The site and film include inspiring info-activism stories from around the world, a set of cards with tool tips and advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples. Tags: india twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

These ebooks can be instantly turned into the accessible format needed by the student with a disability, such as braille, enlarged print, or our most common format, audio through a computerized synthetic voice. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. Their newest video is called Youth Voices. The Freedom To Dream video by Dalit Freedom Network in Vancouver, BC, Canada was the grand prize winner in 2013.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose. Launched in 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved areas with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. students with a global audience.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec has made corporate grants to the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Vital Voices. Vital Voices identifies, invests in, and brings visibility to working women around the world. Their support will help Room to Read extend its operations into new parts of India and reach over 20,000 children.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2016

As risk shifts away from employers, new approaches can help amplify workers' voices, enable employee ownership, and protect workers' rights. Devin studied entrepreneurship among textile artisans as a Fulbright Scholar in India. She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she received the Ronald I.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This is a new Croatian company that has developed an affordable device that allow disabled people to control their environment with voice commands like ‘turn on the lights’ Miroslav Vrankic was trolling the conference looking for U.S. This company is all about nonprofit and cause marketing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. Mideastyouth.com is creating platforms and web applications that amplify diverse voices advocating for change throughout the Middle East and North Africa using digital media. The Challenge of Philanthropy to the Muslim World.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. " She recommends spreading the responsibility for social media across several people to occasionally give your social media person a break (do, of course, train these other folks so that your organization's social media voice is consistent).

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

I heard a voice in my head: You''re the man of the house, and you have to take care of your mom and sister." I wish that little voice had told me about money! I volunteered at a child health care org in India. That''s never good. Mike''s father had passed away. Everyone else starting crying.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

While usage varies by region, the range is relatively narrow, with a high of 93 percent in Australia/New Zealand and USA/Canada and a low of 83 percent in India. Our survey found that current usage of the cloud among survey respondents was very high, with 90 percent of respondents indicating they use at least one cloud-based service.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

But you can listen to their whispering voices on our quarterly reports. That same son spent four months training in India when he was fresh out of college. We were not prepared for the journey, and we had been ignoring the destination off on the horizon for a long time. How did we react? Trey wasn’t in the room.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Is that interaction encouraged to be a free and open dialogue, or are employees' voices knowingly drawn to a hush as leadership walks past? 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.

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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. Is that interaction encouraged to be a free and open dialogue, or are employees' voices knowingly drawn to a hush as leadership walks past?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

"I would wake up in the middle of the night and still hear their voices. I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. We unite those voices to accelerate change. It had hit India.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Someone in Indiana could connect with someone in India around a cause they care about." "The I saw this opportunity to help humanize voices in the digital realm and not just create pop-up communities but communicate with intention." Serendipity, timing, opportunity --> social media happened! No geographic barriers now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The deepest answers started to come from a place I would call "spiritual," reading books that were spiritual, and I went to India. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11. India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

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. Immediately after the earthquakes struck Haiti, the Ushahidi team adapted the platform for crisis reporting and mapping for the area.

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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. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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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. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

Perhaps I feel so strongly about this book, because right before it I read Vandana Shiva's Earth Democracy , a really intense book which discusses a lot of disturbing things like water privatization, female feticide in India, and prevention of seed saving by corporate patents.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 6, 2018

I was easily able to relate to the experiences of immigrating to the country because my family immigrated from India. We lived through the struggle of being poor in India and then coming out to America and having the huge culture shock that many immigrants are going through now and have been going through for decades.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

During this crisis, we conducted a study on a sample of over 600 people from primarily the United States and India. Autonomy: Definition: Giving allows people to feel that they can have a voice into issues closest to their hearts. It is not enough for people to feel that they have a voice.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. And the last thing which is super important as how can I include the voices? And WhatsApp is a great way for this because people can send you a voice note, people can send you a picture immediately and then you can have this dialogue with people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We really try and get women from all walks of life to be able to participate in our program, the goal being to provide as many unique voices and opportunities as possible. A lot of Nepali men are working in the Middle East, or they go abroad to India to work, just because there isn't really a job market at all in Nepal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

The Voices of Davos This meeting is all about conversations. I just want to share some of the voices I've heard so far this week. Sheela Patel of SPARC in Mumbai, India, and I talked about IT needs for her communities: the poor. These are based on my contemporaneous notes.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The UK NPTech website, Charity Digital News reports that the Royal London Society for the Blind and IBM are creating a new voice controlled screen reading application called the Chatty Web. I like their review of the top five smart watches. Accessibility.

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