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Why I Believe Technology Can Change the World

NTEN

The generosity of spirit of the NTEN community has helped us raise $10,547 to convene more local gatherings in 2012, but we still have a ways to go to reach our goal of $15,000 by December 31st. > My wife and I lived at a dusty intersection of two unpaved streets in Kayes, Mali. To be clear, though, this is a fundraising message.

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(Now's the Time to) Bring the Mobile Web into Your Organization

NTEN

The street corner I lived on in Mali was typically quiet (by African standards, anyway): aside from the woman who sold fried dough stuffed with shredded meat, most people just passed by. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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What Would Homer Simpson Do? Your Messages and the Emerging Science of Behavioral Economics

NTEN

Any money you donate will go to Rokia, a seven-year-old girl who lives in Mali, Africa. Tags: E-mail Newsletter NPTech NTEN Communications. Buy it now. 75% of guests who stay in this hotel reuse their towels. Join them and reuse your towel to help save the environment. The answer? And you can too.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Brett Meyer, NTEN. Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. The digital divide doesn't exist. We can just bridge the gap, right? " Who could argue with that?

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. Tags: Data Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff. The good news is that the math is finally starting to add up. .

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Case Study: An Accidental Techie #FAIL Story

NTEN

She joined the Death with Dignity National Center team after ten years of volunteering and working with local nonprofits, with a two-year break serving as a Health Education volunteer with the Peace Corps in the West African nation of Mali.

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? So, here's NTEN's response. Geekcorps Mali works to create and deploy ICT solutions that are sustainable and appropriate for Mali. technologies.

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