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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. I’m well acquainted with the big digital inclusion projects in the U.S. and was completely surprised at how African projects like MyDigitalBridge are getting low-cost Internet to low-income people in a mostly rural country. like Connect2Compete. Citizen Connect.

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Conquering a Cruel Continent for a Cause

Tech Soup

The Namib Desert in Namibia (has the highest sand dunes on earth). I wanted to raise money to be used for a solar street lighting project in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg. The Sahara Desert in Egypt (the hottest desert on earth). The Gobi Desert in China (the windiest desert on earth).

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

in Namibia is showing the way for providing Internet access in Africa. The Alliance For Affordable Internet was the latest big global digital inclusion project to launch this year to find new ways to bring affordable Internet to low-income people. The project is controversial in that it will grow Facebook’s user base.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

What started out as a personal art project has grown into a global community project that has created over 800 handmade cards carrying voices to and from the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Costa Rica, Niger, Namibia, America, Haiti and Afghanistan. What else would you like Have Fun, Do Good's readers know about Traveling Postcards?