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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When we do something that creates entry level jobs in quantity, we reach out to social enterprise partners who specialize in job creation and training. Our first partner in this work was Digital Divide Data, an organization that has an outstanding training program in the area of data entry and outsourcing. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Training Design' Photo by Be Chandra.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At a massive ceremony that took place on 22 January 2008, the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport presented its new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Textbook for all schools that have computers, all universities and all teacher training facilities.

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Sifu’s toughest battle is with its own origins

The Verge

You are tasked with eliminating five martial arts masters who murdered your father a training montage-appropriate number of years before. Colussi is a French-born Pak Mei master who studied Pak (or Bak) Mei in China under the tutelage of Lao Wei San, son of Lao Siu Leung, who is commonly known as the father of the Foshan branch of Pak Mei.

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Google at ACL 2023

Google Research AI blog

Zhao , Ni Lao , Hongrae Lee , Da-Cheng Juan , Kelvin Guu Benchmarking Large Language Model Capabilities for Conditional Generation Joshua Maynez, Priyanka Agrawal, Sebastian Gehrmann Crosslingual Generalization Through Multitask Fine-Tuning Niklas Muennighoff, Thomas Wang, Lintang Sutawika, Adam Roberts , Stella Biderman, Teven Le Scao, M.

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

The campaign will run targeted workshops to train hunters in regulation definitions and processes, and partnership meetings to reform the hunting permit system so it will be effective in supporting legal hunting. Since this transition, Brooke has enjoyed working on social marketing campaigns in Mongolia, Thailand, and Laos PDR.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He will be bringing equipment and provide skills training to the first Community Access television station in Ghana. This group is an international network of people interested in e-learning, is organizing a trip to Thailand and Laos. Nancy White writes about the Future of Learning in a Networked World self-financed learning journey.

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