Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 18, 2010
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. For five days, we focused on teaching the NHRC staff to use the Martus software.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 16, 2012
I shared my story and my experience in doing some online blog mentoring project with young women in Nigeria through my colleague Ore Somolu. I focused on showing them Twitter because there were so many examples of women leaders here in Rwanda and other countries in Africa using it for networking and professional development.
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Forum One
MARCH 18, 2021
Likely, most of this growth will come from China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. What we’re finding is that the designers on mobile are really embracing the constraints [and] that it’s actually teaching us a lot about how to design back to the desktop.” billion people across the globe.
Global Giving
APRIL 25, 2020
To do this, we use a process called machine learning that allows us to “teach” computers how to tackle these tasks. Featured Photo: Send 100 Girls to STEM Camp in Nigeria by Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC). Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. Learn about DataRobot’s AI for Good program.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 8, 2005
Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. And all this is on top of Martus work we're actively engaged with in Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now.
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Learn How Your NGO Can Use Adobe Spark and Other Storytelling Tools. Ilorin, Nigeria: Recession: Reviving the Nation's Economy Through Technology. Saturday, September 2, 2017. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 20, 2007
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. Freecharity.org.uk shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Can cell phones ensure a free vote?
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