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U.S. companies support COVID-19 relief in Indonesia, Southeast Asia

Candid

Chamber of Commerce with support from Business Roundtable — has announced commitments in support of COVID-19 pandemic relief and response efforts in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Indonesia now accounts for approximately one in five fatalities globally as it struggles with shortages of oxygen and hospital capacity.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup Blog

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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Mobile phones to the rescue in Indonesia, Philippines and Samoa

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

From the UN Dispatch : Over the weekend a deadly tropical storm slammed into the Philippines, causing severe flooding in urban areas and affecting tens of thousands. Tuesday, a powerful underwater earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves 15 to 20 feet high that crashed into the Samoa islands, destroying homes and taking lives.

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Mobile phones to the rescue in Indonesia, Philippines and Samoa

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

From the UN Dispatch : Over the weekend a deadly tropical storm slammed into the Philippines, causing severe flooding in urban areas and affecting tens of thousands. Tuesday, a powerful underwater earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves 15 to 20 feet high that crashed into the Samoa islands, destroying homes and taking lives.

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Miradi all over the world!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And, we're getting reports from all over the world of Miradi being used in countries like Indonesia and China, among many others. What a thrill to see our software used to figure out how to conserve an exciting nature area I've only just now learned about! Looking forward to seeing more plans and more stories of conservation in action!

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

International Corporate Accountability Roundtable ● icar.ngo. United States. Mission: To ensure corporations respect human rights in their global operations. Kopernik ● kopernik.ngo. Mission: To fund social entrepreneurs in the developing world through crowdfunding. International Society of Street Papers ● insp.ngo.

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Book Giveaway: Mazarine Treyz, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising

Amy Sample Ward

All fired up from my time in Indonesia, I thought, “Changing the world is so exciting! But what I found was that the books for getting started in making a difference with your writing were just DULL. I tried some courses at the Foundation Center, and looked at some books, but couldn’t really get into anything I read.

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Latest global social, digital, mobile data for ya

AFP Blog

For other reports in this series, please visit [link] H/T to Social Fish'

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Mobile-First Still Matters

Forum One

Likely, most of this growth will come from China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Today, it is projected that nearly three-quarters (72.6%) of internet users will access the web solely via their smartphones by 2025 —this is equivalent to nearly 3.7 billion people across the globe. The genesis of the mobile-first approach.

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Non-Boring #Tech4Good Meetings for Nonprofits

Tech Soup Blog

Jakarta, Indonesia: Strategy of Data Collection for Nonprofits. Jakarta, Indonesia: YouTube for Nonprofits. Wednesday, August 23, 2017. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Asia and Pacific Rim. Saturday, July 15, 2017. Tuesday, August 15, 2017. Africa and Middle East. Saturday, July 1, 2017.

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Adobe Show Your Impact Feature: The Alliance for Tompotika Conservation

Tech Soup Blog

Tompotika area in Sulawesi, Indonesia working to ebb the flow of widespread tropical deforestation, destruction of coral reefs, and poaching of endangered species. This week, we are featuring the Alliance for Tompotika Conservation (AlTo), the winner of the Environment category in the print and photo category.

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Innovative Geocoding Project Maps Aid Data

Tech Soup Blog

12,000 specific geographic locations were coded in 42 Sub-Sahara African countries, 27 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Indonesia, and the Philippines (a selection of Africa-wide projects were also coded). This can have a significantly positive impact on efforts to improve accountability and aid effectiveness.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rare, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, uses Miradi in all its worldwide campaigns to promote biodiversity and has translated the Miradi software into Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin and Spanish. Elaina learned how to use Miradi while working on a Guam watershed plan with CMP member The Nature Conservancy.

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup Blog

Our network partner in Indonesia runs Kitabisa.com ("We can"), a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform. Training and crowdfunding in Asia: TechSoup Asia has run technology training sessions reaching some 850 nonprofits in this region.

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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India. The company seeks to accelerate aid funding distribution and provide transparency in how funds are spent using blockchain. Biometric data to enable government benefit transfers. 1,171,000,000.

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United Nations Volunteers Launches New Online Volunteering Site

Have Fun - Do Good

She recently signed up to do some translation: "I found this organisation named PEOI , which specializes in providing free online education for several countries, including Indonesia. I, basically translate their English contents to Indonesian."

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Data Digest: African Students Using Open Data, Social Impact Bonds, Digital Smoke Signals, and the Data Dilemma

Tech Soup Blog

They are building a network of Pulse Labs to this end, the first of which operates in Jakarta Indonesia. Global Pulse also promotes the concept of “data philanthropy” and the creation of a public “data commons,” in which companies contribute large anonymised customer data sets for development research.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup Blog

Jakarta, Indonesia: Web Hosting. Singapore, Singapore: DataJam! Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Wellington, New Zealand: Set Your Email Newsletter on Fire | Net2Welly Oct '17 Meetup. Sunday, October 15, 2017. Europe and U.K. Tuesday, October 3, 2017. Paris, France: AdWords Express — Grands Débutants. Wednesday, October 4, 2017.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

Have Fun - Do Good

The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

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Fueling Progress Towards Gender Equality and the 2030 Global Goals

Connection Cafe

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. .

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How a Multi-Sectoral Partnership is Fueling Progress Towards Gender Equality and the 2030 Global Goals

Connection Cafe

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. .

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They recently launched lab in Indonesia and started to hear through social media chatter that vaccine serum had meat and that people should not get vaccines. For example, they have some predictable analytics on how people use their mobile phones and this helps understand whether or not they have jobs.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup Blog

It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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Telling Your Story: NetSquared #Storymakers2017 Workshops for Nonprofits

Tech Soup Blog

Jakarta, Indonesia: YouTube for Nonprofits. Wellington, New Zealand: Sharing Battle Stories from 2017 (So Far), over Soup | Net2Welly Aug '17 Meetup. Tuesday, September 12, 2017. Wellington, New Zealand: Quick, Quality, and Possibly Quirky Video | Net2Welly Sept '17 Meetup. Friday, September 15, 2017. Africa and Middle East.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup Blog

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. The Muslim world has a population of one and half billion people or just under a quarter of the world’s population. Another interesting fact is that most Muslims don’t live in the Middle East.

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Creating a Movement, Addressing Inequality

Achieve

She spent half of her senior year traveling the world again, backpacking through places like Indonesia, Thailand, and Southeast Asia. . , returned from her first study-abroad experience in college, she realized she’d caught the travel bug, and it wasn’t going away. These trips were different from what she had witnessed in countries in Europe.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

Successful and Unsuccessful Examples: From @davidahood: Greenpeace internationally had great success recently with the Nestle campaign getting Nestle to end deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil. The campaign was active online and on the ground in over 22 countries – all with a focus on Nestle’s head office in Switzerland.

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Lessons on Policymakers, Gender Equality, and Data

Connection Cafe

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.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup Blog

Jakarta, Indonesia: Youtube for Nonprofits. Tuesday, September 12, 2017. Wellington, New Zealand: Quick, Quality, and Possibly Quirky Video | Net2Welly September '17 Meetup. Friday, September 15, 2017. Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Wellington, New Zealand: Set Your Email Newsletter on Fire | Net2Welly October '17 Meetup.

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NetCentric Advocacy: Online Organizing: Social Network Study of Race and Use Clusters of Myspace or Facebook based on Incoming Class at Northwestern

Network-Centric Advocacy

Regarding parental education, students whose parents have lower levels of schooling are more likely to be MySpace users, whereas students whose parents have higher levels of education are more likely to be Facebook users.

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Reflections on a Weekend with Ze Frank and His Online Community

Museum 2.0

About 700 people participated over two days, including some who had traveled to Santa Cruz from London, Indonesia, and across the US. It was an opportunity for people who participate with Ze Frank's projects online to come together in real space and connect with him and with each other. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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10 Holiday Gifts That Give Back

Have Fun - Do Good

For example, according to the Global Girlfriend site, the $28 Button Summer Tote pictured above is, " Made by a fair trade organization based in Bali Indonesia that aims to help women create a market for their beautiful handicrafts in order to help them create sustainable incomes and encourage keeping traditional crafts and skills alive."

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup Blog

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and Internet growth continues to be brisk, especially in developing countries.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

When I did a little digging, I realized that aside from threatening our water supply in Austin, Texas, they had sufficiently done that in Indonesia, and the Philippines and pretty much all over the world. I think it's one of the, if not the largest mining company in the world.

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