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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism. We go on our gut instinct from people's answer to that one question, and then there is literacy testing involved as well. I said, "You write it. You tell your story."