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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. You can read more about it on the Tunisia Team’s blog.

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Bookshare.org.in (India)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dipendra and I have been talking about working together for years, but during this meeting we were able to get down and plan out our work phase by phase. I'll have a ton more to say about Indian languages over the next few days! We're going to write a more detailed document together on this by email over the next month (we hope!),

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries.