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

Tech Soup

He says that “by combining the concepts of open development and development impact bonds – a financing model based on payments-on-results – change becomes possible and can come from the grassroots.” They are building a network of Pulse Labs to this end, the first of which operates in Jakarta Indonesia.

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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. Participants who felt more confident modeled generous behavior and engaged others. It was pretty freaking amazing. There were two guys with rainbow beards who did not previously know each other.

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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. This model allows the individual to participate with Mallory as a partner and supporter rather than just give without knowing what happens in the end to the person who receives it. World Clothes Line.

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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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