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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Case in point is our team’s work with local LGBTI groups in Sub-Saharan Africa to help them establish independent human rights documentation initiatives. And we have even more improvements in our development pipeline. As toolmakers, our ultimate impact is measured by what our users create with our products.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Bartholomew Sullivan, a regional ICT officer for AFRRI, and Farm Radio International had been in touch with Kubatana, the parent organization of Freedom Fone, in Zimbabwe and thought IVR technology could be used to improve programming at the stations by making the experience and content more interactive. . Listen to the jingle here.) .

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

Build a school in Zimbabwe. Your focus should be on trying to get your local television station, your local newspaper, your local radio station – or maybe you pitch the national news (depending on the nature of the story). Help pay for Sally’s cancer treatment. The more specific, the better. It won’t hurt.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

We make a huge effort to disseminate our news locally via radio partnerships, and other satellite partnerships, so that the people in the communities we serve are benefiting from our news first. They can volunteer locally, or from anywhere. We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped.