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TechSoup Japan and Kenya Launch!

Tech Soup

June marked the launch of two new international TechSoup partners: Japan and Kenya , bringing the total count of TechSoup Global Network partners to 24 (not including the original U.S. TechSoup Kenya is a collaborative effort by SANGONeT/NGO Pulse and Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN). Good people, good times.

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Bookshare around the world

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of our partners is in Kenya, and I recently was sent their holiday party pictures. And, they're doing great work for us in Kenya, a country that has tremendous potential and needs to advance past the challenges of the last year. Tags: social enterprise Daproim Harkin Bookshare Kenya.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. On the last stop of that trip, I went to Kenya to climb a mountain. Our connection to Kenya remains strong; we are also the guardians for one of the children from that orphanage, @sammyikua , who now studies in Maine. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya.

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Market Failure in Global Health Technologies

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur (or VC) can't afford to look at a $5 million revenue opportunity, but that is probably much more attractive to a Kenya entrepreneur. Tags: social entrepreneurs Rice global health social enterprise Social innovation. I am not yet convinced that this is something Benetech should do, though.

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How to Turn Video Views Into Life-Saving Dollars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting , so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez. Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting, so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez. Tags: Fundraising storytelling.

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Net Tuesdays around the world: 6 new groups!

Amy Sample Ward

Nairobi, Kenya. Tags: community events net tuesday net2. If so, connect with the local organizers to find out about the next events, how to help, and spread the word! Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Asheville, South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina. Hamburg, Germany. Lomé, Togo. Two Net Tuesdays of Note.

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GIS for Nonprofits: Learn What You Can Do (And How to Get the Software at a Discount)

NTEN

Nonprofits have been getting in on the action, too, from the Ushahidi project in Kenya to Movesmart.org's neighborhood search system in Chicago. Tags: GIS NPTech NTEN. I mean, just look at this new application in Google Earth that tracks flights in near real-time. The potential of GIS to help us tell our stories is enormous.