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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mission: To promote the right to education and to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. International Society of Street Papers ● insp.ngo.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I actually started out with International Studies, and more academic. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. A woman journalist from Sudan had her story about the flogging of a woman who was wearing pants get picked up, and it made international headlines.

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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. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. This time, I had the benefit of help.

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