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

Global Giving

His is an incredible journey in social entrepreneurship , and I feel humbled to be seated in the same room. Last month, PayPal announced that its scaling its popular person-to-person payments technology, Venmo, to millions of online retailers. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India.

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

c) TechSoup should stick to its knitting of being an opinion-free provider of donated and low-cost software and hardware and not offer opinions on social and political issues. Fundacja TechSoup (based in Warsaw, Poland) also runs Apps4Cities technology challenges that leverage open data to increase civic engagement in the region.

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The State of the Internet 2014

Tech Soup

The high Internet growth countries are now India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, and Philippines. ” Let me translate: in social media we’re tending to have more frequent interactions with smaller groups of close contacts rather than doing Facebook broadcasts to large audiences. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6

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Non-Boring #Tech4Good Meetings for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

NetSquared organizers bring together the nonprofit technology community for face-to-face meetings. Naples, Florida: How to use Technology to Communicate and Manage Volunteers. Los Angeles, California: Summer Social. Jasper, Indiana: Social Media. Jakarta, Indonesia: Strategy of Data Collection for Nonprofits.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Blogger Conference | by Get Social Events, the Social Media Breakfast Folks ($25). San Francisco, California: Social Impact in Tech: Panel Discussion with LinkedIn, Lyft, and Salesforce. Seattle, Washington: Fall Nonprofit Technology Speed Geek. Jakarta, Indonesia: Web Hosting.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. The entire focus of our social message is to know your audience,” Elaina told us.

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