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Human Rights Trainings in Nigeria

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend. Human rights monitors in Nigeria continue to be harassed. Martus is used around the world by human rights workers, attorneys, journalists, government officials and others who need to protect their data and the people they work with.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

There’s Olutosin in Lagos, Nigeria. There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. That’s just the beginning.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

It aims to share principles and resources for governments and societies on how to best maximize open government data opportunities. Through identifying successes, it will provide a roadmap of policies and institutions that governments can use to create meaningful new open data initiatives.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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They talked about the economic value of housework, and the importance of education and literacy in gaining economic independence." T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. Women are simply not at the negotiating table.

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