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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. and was completely surprised at how African projects like MyDigitalBridge are getting low-cost Internet to low-income people in a mostly rural country. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. An NGO with A National Mandate. Citizen Connect.

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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

Tech Soup

Access to the Internet and computers is still a serious issue for most people in the developing world and even the U.S. This interest may have been kindled when he was an ICT advisor to the government of Namibia before he came to Microsoft. It's Not Just About the Environment. Nearly half of the lowest-income families in the U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

It allows charities to get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere there is Internet on many kinds of devices - PCs, Macs, and mobile devices of various kinds. Big Data and the Internet of Things. Like my colleague Jane Zhang at TechSoup Canada , I pegged the Internet of Things (IoT) as something to watch this year.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. As we reflect on Sandy and its implications for the future of our country, we also need to consider the impacts of climate change on poor nations.

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