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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

March 8th is International Women’s Day. Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. Here’s the application and more information. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development. a device only seen on TV!

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

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The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Kampala, Uganda: Using Social Media Applications for Development. The link need to be like so: Africa. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

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Marsha Wallace: Dining for Women is an international giving circle, and our mission is to support and empower self-sufficiency for women and girls who live in extreme poverty in developing countries. We get new chapter applications every month in 39 states and three foreign countries. You've also added a travel program.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership. Visiting the Hon.

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