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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have created the design and delivered an intensive Train the Trainers session in Beirut almost a year ago for master trainers and their teams from Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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Big Tech pledged a billion to racial justice, but it was pocket change

The Verge

That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). The “Big Tech” charts above only compare the racial equity pledges and annual profits of the 12 tech or tech-adjacent public companies with more than $5 billion in profit in their last fiscal year. percent of the $55.3

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E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. February 27, 2011. Some observations from the discussion: 1.)

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Alpha Motor’s EV designs look cool, but will they ever get made?

The Verge

And we can’t help ourselves but put these vehicle designs out there to see what the public is interested in. So I was working on this project to just kind of change the narrative on what people know and think about the country of Yemen. Some of that information is public knowledge on the internet. Who is the team at Alpha?

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world. We need the persistence of human rights groups to secure accountability for violators.

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The Trump administration’s Signal scandal shows humans will always be the weakest link in cybersecurity

Fast Company Tech

For several days, a journalist from The Atlantic had unrestricted access to a private Signal group chat involving the highest levels of governmentdiscussing, in real time, an imminent U.S. military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Invite someone to your chat group, and of course they can read everything.

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National Security Council adds Gmail to its list of bad decisions

Engadget

This latest instance of dubious software use from the executive branch follows the discovery that several high-ranking national security leaders used Signal to discuss planned military actions in Yemen, then added a journalist from The Atlantic to the group chat.

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