Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

One cool project that came out of a RHoK event is InfoPlace Kenya , an Android application for information and directions of essential places in Kenya like hospitals, tourists attractions, restaurants, educational facilities, and more. The hackathons are themed around a certain issue, such as education or mHealth (mobile health).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events. I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. My experience with the international publishers was such that I expected there would be a way to work through this issue.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Common data issues include duplicate profiles, incorrect data entry, and trivial or unnecessary information. While the “human touch” may sometimes be needed to resolve data issues, all nonprofit CRMs including should support a variety of ways to ensure data integrity. .

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

Rebuttal : While it is true that GPT models can reflect and perpetuate biases present in the data used to train them, there are approaches that can be taken to mitigate this issue. For example, researchers can use data augmentation techniques to balance the training data and ensure that the model is exposed to a diverse range of perspectives.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Nonprofits have been getting in on the action, too, from the Ushahidi project in Kenya to Movesmart.org's neighborhood search system in Chicago. The potential of GIS to help us tell our stories is enormous. Problem is, the really powerful systems have long carried a price out of the reach of most nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Although these issues were major restraints on farmers, I soon realized that the chief constraint stemmed from the farmers’ mindset of extreme risk aversion and an overwhelming need to supply their daily needs. The farmers had little to no access to markets, making them targets for exploitation from traders and brokers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues. This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

Gender parity in education and equal pay for equal work are unresolved issues in 2017. Janet Mawlyoo , executive director, Kenya Community Development Foundation. From the beginning, it was about jobs, education, and money. Those themes hold to this day. Gender equality is one of the 17 new UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Talking about global youth issues from a high-level is one thing, but it is so much more impactful and inspiring to sit down with young people and hear their stories of challenge and success directly. This youth panel was truly inspiring for me.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Influential international economic players have also realized this, and the importance of the Internet to the economy, and have organized several meetings on these issues: The first e-g8 meeting in Paris was held this year. We also have to engage with other CSOs and other stakeholders on these issues.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Here are just a few of the many examples of how the humble mobile is being used for development: For those nonprofits working on agricultural issues - The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (Kace) , provides crop growers with the very latest commodity information via SMS and has helped farmers to quadruple earnings.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

However, she laments that issues of inclusivity, representation and participation across society remain largely ignored in spite of the rapid growth of the Open Data movement even though they should be placed at the front and centre.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

This session we focused on issues of health data collection--represented by the form shown here, which is a brand-new data collection instrument from Kenya (brought to the group by PATH's David Lubinski). The issues are not limited to the developing world. The impact of donor expectations on data collection.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2004

One of the issues I was exploring on my trip to Africa was the expansion of the use of our Martus software there. And, of course, there are many human rights and social justice issues in Africa. There's more in the press release, and we will be expanding our efforts in Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria. Department of State.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Nearly all of the web communication challenges I’ve encountered with the groups I’ve worked with stem from basic content planning and governance issues. Truth is, content is messy, and the politics, governance issues, and discussions around it can be complicated and time-consuming. Your organizational content should be intentional.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Note from Beth: As you read this post, I’ll be at the Ushahidi Board Meeting in Kenya. Regardless, we wondered if an online community of natural leaders would gel and work collectively to increase the impact volunteers can have on issues they care about.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

For us, we felt that there were certainly incredible issues and basic needs at the moment, and lots of people came together around those things, like internet access, food, and essential things in schools. imagine living in a refugee camp in Kenya. While things may not be ideal here in the U.S., That’s been hard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

election monitoring Macedonia and Kenya; among women voters in Saudi Arabia, and. issue advocacy, fundraising, humanitarian and disaster relief, and mobile. Mobile phones offer an. extremely effective way for organizations to get messages out to the public, monitor elections, and encourage voter participation.??? organizing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The IT press was buzzing in late April about the free portable WiFi embedded by Microsoft in select May 6 Forbes Magazine print issues. Available on news stands now, so check one out if you see a new issue while in line at the grocery store. Strange News. Yes that's right. Microsoft has placed an Office 365. Accessibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

There is also the issue of comfort - both with the technology and being transparent. You can regularly see him discussing issues on Twitter with other thought leaders and journalists. Reeta Roy , president and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation, is sending tweets from her site visit to Uganda and Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. She then went on to hold several Traveling Postcards workshops both in her own community, and then in Kenya!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

What did you do while your in Cambodia (and Kenya)? Throughout my two years at Pact, with residence in both Cambodia and Kenya, I spent much of my time doing actual program work, providing technical assistance to our partners, and chronicling lessons learned. Why do you think it is important to have a nonprofit focused panel at a Web2.0

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. Hundreds of submissions poured in from 70+ countries as part of our Women Weave the Web Campaign.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

With voice, many solutions for issues like the “market price” problem can be human engineered, as that information is now only a phone call away to a trusted source in a bigger market. Voice remains the killer app. I’ve been part of two particular SMS health projects that have convinced me of the viability of this approach. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Social enterprise and entrepreneurship started to address social issues in a community. So, it was generally focused on some social issue that was often around employment and/or to develop opportunities for farmers. The intro and outro music was from Kenya Masala's song, "Mango Delight."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. Ushahidi in Kenya has developed a device called a BRCK that addresses frequent Internet and electricity outages in much of the developing world. MyDigitalBridge. in Namibia is showing the way for providing Internet access in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 31, 2006

At the time, Maathai was a member of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK). During the two years leading up to the conference, the NCWK met to discuss what issues they thought should be included on the agenda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. It wasn't until I got to Kenya and saw how many kids were just dying to go to school and would do anything that I realized that that's not true all over the world. That's when I think my worldview was originally rocked.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So, we created the organization, sort of, to really use food as a tool for social change that we could really leverage to address multiple issues. And that is shocking, and really points to the urgency of the issue. So it's sort of a one-week, powerhouse, intensive, eye-opening experience to all of these issues.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Along with earning her PhD (she is credited as the first woman in East and Central Africa to do so), Maathai taught at the university level, worked in the Kenya government, and founded the Greenbelt Movement. Wangari Maathai. Laura Dekker.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. The summer before my last year in college, I participated in a summer program in Philadelphia that was designed to teach young people organizing skills around poverty and homelessness issues. I was somewhat lazy in doing that work.

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