Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend. Human rights monitors in Nigeria continue to be harassed. The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff. We also had sporadic and limited Internet connectivity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It doesn’t require internet access. Broadcasting lessons over the radio in Nigeria: As an Education Champion and founder of ACE Charity, Kiki James runs safe space clubs to help equip girls in northern Nigeria with the tools they need to realize their ambitions. The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

According to the Women and the Web report, 200 million more men have access to the Internet than women. A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. There’s Olutosin in Lagos, Nigeria. That’s just the beginning.

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