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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

After Mongolia, Namibia is the least densely populated country in the world. What's really interesting is how Namibia is approaching the huge infrastructure problem of providing broadband in places that don’t have much basic electricity yet. It has a population of just over 2 million in an area considerably larger than Texas.

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How Gen Z Donors Harness the Power of Online Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Well-informed, constantly connected, and more tech-confident than your aunt Jan, they’re taking on the world’s problems, one online fundraiser at a time. And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. Small Givers, Big Impact.

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Favorite Do-Good Books of 2008

Have Fun - Do Good

Her, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was on my Favorite Do-Good Book of 2007 list. It's the do-good adventure story of a former mountain climber who has spent almost 15 years building schools in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia.

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Digital Ecology: The Future of Nonprofit Websites

NTEN

As part of their digital footprint, Mercy Corps , a prominent NGO that acts to alleviate poverty and suffering throughout the world, has seven major websites, including their main site, campaign sites, and regional sites in the UK, China, and even Mongolia. Then there's the end-of-life problem. The transition can take some time.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe.

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