Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

On International Human Rights Day, we pay tribute to all human rights defenders, celebrate the recent victories of the human rights community, and recognize the challenges that still lie ahead in the global struggle to advance justice, accountability and an end to impunity. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Storytelling is our focus for May, but every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 50 cities. New York City, New York: Don't Stop A/Believing: Using Testing to Improve Your Newsletter and Website. Mukono, Uganda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty. Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. We featured many of these on Benetech's website. Bookshare.org Goes International This year marked my first attendance at the Clinton Global Initiative.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process." He was actually on a business trip, on his bike, to Uganda. It had been bombed.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Epidemiologists watch for blips in Google queries to localize flu outbreaks; economists use them to spot shifts in consumer confidence. Keisha Taylor is TechSoup Global's senior manager for business planning and research for our Global Data Services work. The UN Global Pulse initiative. Big Data in Disaster Relief.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The idea is now that we're getting stronger and more flexible, more conscious, more patient, and more aware, we need to take those very qualities that we're learning in the yoga room, and begin to truly apply them in our families, in our local community, and into our global family as well. It was an incredible success.

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