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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

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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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c) " This was 1988. There was no web.

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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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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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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On demand access to trusted information for every realm of decision-making is available, and yet for all the technology progress – many in our social sector find ourselves at loss. That’s a good thing because lots of people are addressing social issues, but it is also a nightmare? Why are we using data that is 3 years old?

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

Note on platform : During last week’s Twitter chat, not unlike previous chats, we dealt with some major issues around lag and load time. 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.

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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. Ze had issued an invite to tens of thousands of people online, and we had no idea how many people would attend, and who they are. It was pretty freaking amazing.