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GeekCorps Mali

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

It was my last afternoon in Mali, as I started psychic re-entry process into my normal existence, that I remembered that in real life, hey, I'm a geek. So I dropped by the offices of GeekCorps Mali, which as it turned out was just around the corner from where I was staying at Rebecca and Fode's house in the Quartier Hippodrome.

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Improving Public health in Mali

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Last month I wrote about my stroll through Sikoro , on the northern outskirts of Bamako, Mali, and the community health project Siguida Keneyali we learned about there. Today my friend Britt Bravo posted an in-depth interview with Caitlin Cohen of Siguida that looks at the project and its community-based orientation in some real detail.

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Why I Believe Technology Can Change the World

NTEN

The market in Kayes I'd like to tell you why I believe technology can change the world. > 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. To be clear, though, this is a fundraising message. It was a heck of a thing to witness.

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

These new UN Sustainable Development Goals are the de facto agenda for global philanthropy, and they have a new dimension: technology targets to enable implementation. That may be why technology (for example, rapid mobile phone adoption worldwide) may be so important for realizing the new goals. The Technology Dimension.

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Happy Holidays!

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Using a donated CMS from our good friends at Orchid Suites , and a beautiful design by Erica Trauba, we've built a new website for the folks at the Mali Health Organizing Project, a group that is helping a community in Mali to build its own clinic.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup

In partnership with Orange France and Emmaus International, Clic Vert has developed electronics recycling and refurbishment workshops in Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Madagascar, and Togo to organize the collection and repair of used mobile phones. Solidarity Through Technology in France.

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Hold my calls

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Technology Review published a survey of the role of mobile technology in the developing economies this past January. Going beyond the merely anecdotal, the article tried to put some metric on the role mobile technology plays in growth in these countries. percent, or around US$12 billion for an economy the size of China.

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