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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 27, 2012
We will use SKYPE out which is more rebust for monthly conference calls, scheduled for business hours in Pakistan so participants can use the Internet connection at their offices. I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones. The power of peer knowledge at work!
Tech Soup
MAY 7, 2013
Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Social Media.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 7, 2013
This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region. We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. Valter is the chief operating officer of ATN.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them. What this means? Green Technology.
NTEN
AUGUST 31, 2010
Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. Telephone, and internet, and electricity, and fuel are spotty. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Mobile phones. There is no real infrastructure. Tablets/Touchscreen devices.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 27, 2007
The Internet connection is very slow that I am on and typepad won't load. I got a kick out the fact that one of my colleague's mother called her cell phone because she was worried about her transport home. " I asked about the speed of Internet connection at the conference and I learned that a 512K connection is "really fast."
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