Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. When they evacuated from their small island, I reminded them to take their cell phones and chargers. This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. They lost power, heat, and light.

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