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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There I was, being virtually groped in a snowy fortress with my brother-in-law and husband watching. Cryptocurrency is currently the financial system of the metaverse. In the future, AR could expand to holograms of ourselves doing everything from going on safari in Kenya to attending a conference. Get the idea? Cryptocurrency.

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. Janet Mawlyoo , executive director, Kenya Community Development Foundation. Law and Advocacy. Cecily Walker , systems librarian at the Vancouver BC Public Library.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. Ushahidi in Kenya has developed a device called a BRCK that addresses frequent Internet and electricity outages in much of the developing world.

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

And, you know, he actually, you know, in his business had Project Launch as a formal product that they did for major hospital systems. We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” We wanted to beef up the hot water system. So there’s a need. ” . we hadn’t finished.

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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

It's another to have the education to support that desire, to support that change, and so we're looking at long-term, sort of systemic and generational change, not necessarily just short-term fixes, and that takes pretty profound work and education to do. And then, of course, we have a strong commitment to economic development, as well.

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Crossposted at the Creative Commons Weblog.

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