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

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This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. They are building a network of Pulse Labs to this end, the first of which operates in Jakarta Indonesia. It was originally published on NetSquared. Data for Public Service Delivery.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

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It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. The school has about 300 students who attend classes in a one-room building that ordinarily accommodates 30 children. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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Creating a Movement, Addressing Inequality

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She spent half of her senior year traveling the world again, backpacking through places like Indonesia, Thailand, and Southeast Asia. She realized that the life she had was much more privileged than most, even though she would be considered by many in the United States as a broke student just getting started in her career.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

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The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. It previously offered reduced cost Internet plans only to families with students who qualify for free or reduced-cost school lunches. There are now 2.4 Eligibility for the program is a bit complex.

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