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Why I Believe Technology Can Change the World

NTEN

> Please make a gift to support nonprofit technology in 2012. My wife and I lived at a dusty intersection of two unpaved streets in Kayes, Mali. Support our work today and your donation will go twice as far, thanks to a matching grant by the NTEN board. When a truck full of merchandise pulled up, it was a surprise only to us.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup

Created in 1992, Ateliers du Bocage (the name roughly translates to forest workshop) was founded as a project of the Emmaus Social Movement , a postwar European humanitarian movement organized to nonviolently defend and support the most destitute members of society. Clic Vert collects old phones mainly from small mobile phone repair shops.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? If you, like Jon Stahl and many others, are interested in seeing more tools play well together, go sign it right now. Should foundations align their grantmaking directives with their endowment investment policies? A Few Web2.0

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. Even an organization with the marketing muscle and international support of OLPC can't avoid infighting over whether or not they should build a version of their system featuring Microsoft's distinctly unfree Windows XP.

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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. A limiting factor, to scale up, will remain the local technical capacity to support and “own” these systems over time. .

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Case Study: An Accidental Techie #FAIL Story

NTEN

Without the support of leadership, the project essentially dragged to a halt. 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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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Second, the relationship between weak and strong ties is one of complementarity and support, not one of opposition. Here’s how it is explained: Strong versus weak ties should not be seen as opposites but rather as supporting and complementary dynamics. One key point is that Internet bolsters strong ties directly and indirectly.

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