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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

For example, in Liberia, the bot asked 13,000 young people if teachers at their schools were exchanging grades for sex. 86% said yes, uncovering a widespread problem and prompting Liberia’s Minister of Education to work with UNICEF on addressing it. Unicef’s bot has had some early successes. Also determine the cost.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I just saw a remarkable film made about a grantee organization that the Global Fund had supported for many years in Liberia.

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