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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver.

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. View more documents from E-Mediat.

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N2Y4 Mobile Challenge and Conference

Amy Sample Ward

The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Location: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA. Sessions promise to cover leading theories and practices. Conference Details: Date: Tuesday, May 26 & Wednesday, May 27. Hotel: Visit N2Y4 for more info. See you in San Jose!

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Broadband Adoption in Chile

Tech Soup

Cisco released the results of a study last week , reporting that growth in Chile's broadband penetration has dropped from 45 percent in 2006 to 10.5 Solutions are forthcoming for the small-to-medium-sized NGOs working to provide these groups with access to information. percent in 2008.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. By 2020, Cisco forecasts that there will be 50 billion things connected to the Internet in this way.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. Last month it was Facebook’s Internet.org initiative to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones for people in developing countries.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

I talked about Internet.org’s strategy of bridging the digital divide with smartphones and also improving the efficiency of Internet networks. My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. TechCrunch. What the heck. Have a look at the four winning videos on YouTube.

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