Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2004

I'm working from Maputo, Mozambique on this U.S. Last week in South Africa I was discussing adaptive technology for the blind and software for human rights groups. Memorial Day. Today I've been talking to humanitarian demining groups about our proposed mine detector.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 20, 2004

Earlier this year, I remember buying roasted cashews from a woman on the street in Maputo, Mozambique, who had her wares balanced on her head. My takeaway is something that many people has pointed out: that the cell phone has become an incredible engine of change for the poor.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2004

I am just back from the Africa Economic Summit in Mozambique. I was very impressed with President Chissano, the former Marxist revolutionary who is stepping down next year after leading his country for 18 years. His embrace of business development, reform, and advancing the interests of his people made quite an impression on me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 20, 2004

I was interested enough in learning more to take off for a tour of facilities in Maputo the next afternoon, hosted by the Catholic Community of Saint'Egidio , a group well known for having helped broker the peace settlement in Mozambique more than a decade ago. A dispensary full of generic versions of drugs (which aren't generic in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. In Mozambique, for example, a recent study showed that using just 1GB of data can cost well over two months’ wages for the average citizen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

A post-carbon, clean energy, renewable economy will be an economy that has more jobs, because renewable technologies and sustainable ways of doing things are simply more labor-intensive. The government doesn't need to put everybody to work necessarily, though it may get to that point. and you kind of go through your rebel phase.

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