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Net Tuesdays around the world: 6 new groups!

Amy Sample Ward

We are so thrilled to have these groups coming together to work on local projects and would love to have your city start a Net Tuesday group, too! Lomé, Togo. Their work has catalyzed the local community looking for technology and social change projects. Are you in one of these cities? Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup

Created in 1992, Ateliers du Bocage (the name roughly translates to forest workshop) was founded as a project of the Emmaus Social Movement , a postwar European humanitarian movement organized to nonviolently defend and support the most destitute members of society. To date, the project has collected and recycled over half a million phones.