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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. After Mongolia, Namibia is the least densely populated country in the world. I’m well acquainted with the big digital inclusion projects in the U.S. like Connect2Compete. Citizen Connect.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. Social Media. Shared.com.

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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). SANGONeT supports the effective use of information and communications technology in civil-society organizations in South Africa. The Sahara Desert in Egypt (the hottest desert on earth). The Gobi Desert in China (the windiest desert on earth).

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Aided by technology, they gathered and shared and used data to figure out where my parents were and how to get them out. This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. Micro-grids that can both be coupled and decoupled from larger grids are within technological reach.

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