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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. Hamburg, Germany.

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

Tech Soup

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared.

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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.