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The Evolving Relationship Among CSR, Tech, and Nonprofits

Tech Soup

This is Myanmar. In Myanmar, Tableau has worked in partnership with the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation, which supports thousands of libraries around the country. Libraries have become places in communities where the people of Myanmar learn about civil society and technology.

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. What works in Mali may not work in Myanmar. Understanding local context is the first step. Lack of infrastructure and weak political will in various countries hampered progress.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

This device can send the information through a cell phone to a physician hundreds of miles away who can then offer expert diagnostic and treatment advice to the local health care provider. Effective collaboration is critical in emergency situations that require multiple nonprofits and development agencies to work side by side.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

This device can send the information through a cell phone to a physician hundreds of miles away who can then offer expert diagnostic and treatment advice to the local health care provider. Effective collaboration is critical in emergency situations that require multiple nonprofits and development agencies to work side by side.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. They can volunteer locally, or from anywhere. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well.