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India's Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At the India Economic Summit, Vikram Akula of SKS, the microfinance institution, won the award today. One of the more interesting sessions was the discussion of the main risks India is facing. Big social entrepreneurship event here in New Delhi! There's great buzz around here about it. and very different.

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The Tech Awards - Technology Benefiting Humanity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just attended the 2010 Tech Awards Gala Even. Awards were presented in five areas: Environment, Economic Development, Education, Equality and Health. I learned that in some parts of India everyone has a cell phone but few have indoor plumbing or access to clean water – change is happening. What did I learn last night?

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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Mobilizing Impact at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of State, about empowering the world’s billion people with disabilities ; or to talking with my peer Skoll Award winners about writing software for development, social justice and human rights needs—CGI 2013 was a nonstop flow of sessions and exchanges with partners on ways to leverage resources towards each organization’s mission.

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Meet the creators who bait scammers for fun and profit

Mashable Tech

Biggest claim to fame: Winning the "collaboration award" at the 2022 Streamy awards for a video with Jim Browning and another popular YouTube creator, former NASA engineer Mark Rober. million Earliest video: 2021 Location: India Most popular video: "Showing a scammer his own webcam on my computer" (2021), with more than 34.5

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Daily Crunch: Apple announces its 2022 App Store Award winners

TechCrunch

Ivan writes that BeReal won “app of the year” for 2022 in Apple’s annual App Store Awards. M&A action : Manish reports that India-based fintech CRED is acquiring CreditVidya, a SaaS startup specializing in underwriting first-time borrowers. Nigerian restaurant tech company Orda gobbled up $3.4 Tage has more.

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Vinod Sena in memoriam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Just after returning from India and Bangladesh, I received word that one of my key contacts and hosts had suddenly passed away. He has been described as the pioneer of Talking Books in India, and had been campaigning for a copyright law change to make it easier to provide access to accessible books.