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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

And the government of Bangladesh announced plans for a nationwide mobile payments system by early 2018.This BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India. That’s how many residents of India have enrolled in the world’s largest biometric identification system. 1,171,000,000.

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Innovative Geocoding Project Maps Aid Data

Tech Soup

With geographic coordinates the features can be mapped and entered into Geographic Information Systems, or the coordinates can be embedded into media such as digital photographs via geotagging." This particular geocoding project identifies and records the location of specific aid activity at the subnational level.

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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. What systems level interventions are needed to improve the nonprofit sector’s capacity to embrace data — not only collect, but to make sense and apply?

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. The Android mobile operating system is dominant around the world with a more than 50 percent market share. There are now 2.4 There’s plenty of room for yet more advertising on our phones.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

After college, after some wanderings and living out in nature doing a lot of backpacking I decided I didn't want to, actually, well, actually let me start, I was a science major in college because I knew that I wanted to study eco-systems and help to preserve them that way. Went through the democractic system, went door-to-door.

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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. So I started to understand that there was a system at play that needs to change. More women voices are needed everywhere we go.

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