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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

Having first-hand knowledge of the barriers that keep girls in their area from going to school makes our partners well-suited to overcome those obstacles, take action, and advance education opportunities for the girls in their community. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

There’s Olutosin in Lagos, Nigeria. 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. That’s just the beginning.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

A new Global Open Data Initiative has been launched through a partnership with the Web Foundation, Sunlight Foundation, Open Institute and Open Knowledge Foundation. Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society. Announcing the Global Open Data Initiative (GODI).