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The Bots are Here: Leading With Our Humanity in the Age of Automation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The bot, available via Twitter and Facebook Messenger, polls its followers (called ‘U-Reporters’) on a range of topics and uses the data to help influence public policy. For example, in Liberia, the bot asked 13,000 young people if teachers at their schools were exchanging grades for sex. Unicef’s bot has had some early successes.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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During her reign over the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of Angola in the 17th century, she fought against the slave trade and European influence and paved the way for a centuries-long resistance movement that would ultimately win Angola its independence in 1975. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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