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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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

In a market where internet-enabled app-based banking can reach 300 million subscribers on the continent, USSD technology, predominantly offline and used mainly by feature phones, outpaces it with 850 million connections. Stax describes itself as a remote team with employees working from the U.S., Nigeria and Kenya.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

“15% of the UK population hasn’t experienced the Internet even once.” should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” “It’s not about technology, it’s finally about who uses it and how.” ” Ken. preoccupied with technology. On the core.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

It aims to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones to bring the 4 billion souls on earth who don't yet have Internet in to the information age. The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Internet use has reached 45% of the total population in LMIC, with 5.1 What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Traditionally, infrastructure, cost, and connectivity have limited the availability of technology to small-scale farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. The Internet, it took 10 - 15 years, also, before anybody started doing this on a large scale. But, in Africa, where we work, there are very, very few jobs in the formal private sector.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

"Meetings" come in diverse and innovative formats like Mississauga, Canada's Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo; Pangani, Tanzania's Social Media Surgery ; and Birmingham, United Kingdom's Summer Tech for Good Social in a local pub. Join us at your local group. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems.

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