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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. After Mongolia, Namibia is the least densely populated country in the world. In Africa, Internet is wireless, and Africa uses mainly cell phone towers to provide broadband. like Connect2Compete.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. When they evacuated from their small island, I reminded them to take their cell phones and chargers. This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. They lost power, heat, and light.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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