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We Have a Treaty…and It’s Great!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Diplomatic leaders leaders gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco. Last month, leaders from around the world gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, with the hope of taking a huge step forward and designing that international model. We help more than 250,000 people with print disabilities thanks to our U.S. copyright exception.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. The option was developing a sophisticated filtering system to edit out the offensive words was not possible. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan. Mohammad L.

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A Guide To Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The 15-page PDF includes the pros and cons of using Facebook for activism, a step-by-step guide to organizing an activism campaign on Facebook, and examples of campaigns from Burma, Morocco, and Egypt. It is a quick read and very useful. planning processes more than the traditional mechanistic, linear processes.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature…” These great qualities of ideas led to our legal system regulating the propagation of ideas differently than physical objects.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mazur uses technology,a web-based monitoring system where students submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class. He expects students to read the assignment before they come to class so that instructional time can be spent helping them make sense of it and apply to their work.

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Multi-Country Rollout of Salesforce to Support Workforce Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Cloud 4 Good

Technology plays an inherently important role for organizations, such as EFE, connecting offices worldwide through a central system. This critical need led EFE to Cloud for Good in pursuit of Salesforce implementation services that could build and configure a system capable of tracking and managing EFE workforce development efforts.

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