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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries. In this post Madeleine Clark, an AidData Summer Fellow, talks about the need for open data programs to be responsive to citizens needs.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Downloads, packaged with support, will cost $250 per user per year, discounted to $150 for nonprofits. A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Ready to support more female game-changers? No chase boat, no support, no film crew, no problem. Sheroes in the Sciences.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally. The Global Fund tries to measure those results, not so much by our own standards, but by the standards that the groups that we support set for themselves.

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