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Human Rights Trainings in Nigeria

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend. Human rights monitors in Nigeria continue to be harassed. They also helped the NHRC upgrade their computers so that they could prepare for our arrival in Nigeria. Tags: Tripathi Martus NHRC human rights Nigeria MacArthur.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

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Tags: print disabled print disabilities Benetech publishers blind SCCR Bookshare WIPO SCCR20.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Botswana's Elections and the Use of Social Media

Tech Soup

While they note that their use of social media tools is behind countries like Nigeria, Uganda, or South Africa, there are promising signs that individuals like journalists and students are using such tools to monitor and report on the ongoing elections. One blogger in particular, Patricia Maganu, notes that: read more.

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Connecting the dots: development information in the cloud

Forum One

It's still extremely hard to answer simple questions such as: who is currently funding malaria work in Nigeria? Tags: Collaboration. The past decade has seen an explosion in development knowledge and information that is available online, but development professionals are increasingly overwhelmed with information overload.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. Tags: network effectiveness scholar working wikily. I've gotten into the.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Freecharity.org.uk You've got to love their logo.