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The Bots are Here: Leading With Our Humanity in the Age of Automation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The bot, available via Twitter and Facebook Messenger, polls its followers (called ‘U-Reporters’) on a range of topics and uses the data to help influence public policy. For example, in Liberia, the bot asked 13,000 young people if teachers at their schools were exchanging grades for sex. Unicef’s bot has had some early successes.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

I just saw a remarkable film made about a grantee organization that the Global Fund had supported for many years in Liberia. They wouldn't know she had stood with Gandhi in his resistance to the British, and supported his policy of nonviolent resistance to British colonialism. Until then, women had been considered minors under the law.

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