Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues. Benetech's Human Rights Program Manager, Kristen Cibelli, has just relocated to Liberia for at least six months. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Liberia is another country where we are gearing up to set operations.” “We want to work in countries where we find that the infrastructure is paralyzed and requires fintech to step in and see what solutions can be provided to solve the situation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

These are markets where it has distributors or dealers; 13 of them are in sub-Saharan Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

If you are in Tanzania or Liberia, nothing is going to offend you more than only being served Nigerian, Ghanaian, or South African songs. To adapt, Macli and Zisook hired a local team in Nigeria, gaining valuable insights into their new market.The mistake that so many in the industry made was to view Africa as a monolith, Zisook says.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2008

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event. Ann Curry, News Anchor for The Today Show , and Co-Anchor of Dateline NBC will emcee.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a presence in six African countries — Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Kenya and Uganda — Helium Health has signed more than 500 healthcare facilities. Over 7,000 medical professionals from these facilities now provide care to more than 300,000 patients monthly.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The issue includes an interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton , an interview with the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a piece about Women and Philanthropy by Lisa Belkin, and an excerpt from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana. The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions. Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo. on his blog, On the Ground.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The platform is available in other markets, such as South Africa, Sierra Leone, the UK, Liberia, Gambia and the US, but Shagaya said uLesson has spread in these countries via word of mouth. Nigeria remains uLesson’s largest market by far, said Shagaya. The country is responsible for 85% of uLesson’s paying users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

I will never forget meeting Leymah Gbowee , the winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize who led the women’s movement resulting in peace in Liberia. In 2012, the themes of inequality and the “forgotten one billion” permeated nearly every discussion about the global community.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Ebola Fighters Enlist Texts in Bid to Curb Outbreak - Bloomberg : "Aid workers in Liberia tried out a new tool this week to contain the world’s worst Ebola outbreak: the text message." ''via Blog this'''

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Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

A program in Liberia aimed to compensate community health workers—typically unpaid roles dominated by women—but when it became a paid profession with educational requirements, many women were shut out.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2015

Helping some of the world’s most impoverished children in Liberia is a complex problem, but ChildFund International receives help from an important partner back in the U.S.: A pair of shoes might not sound like much, yet there’s a big need for them in Liberia. ChildFund International. TOMS Shoes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The past year of research by HRDAG analysts has supported key criminal prosecutions and uncovered the truth about political violence in Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Chad and Liberia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For example, in Liberia, the bot asked 13,000 young people if teachers at their schools were exchanging grades for sex. 86% said yes, uncovering a widespread problem and prompting Liberia’s Minister of Education to work with UNICEF on addressing it. Unicef’s bot has had some early successes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 8, 2007

Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, and Africa's first elected female head of state. France: Fatima Elayoubi, an Arab immigrant and former cleaning woman, whose memoir, Prière à la Lune (Prayer to the Moon) , raised awareness among Parisians about the lives of "invisible" immigrants like herself.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In the documentary, Carr scolds Vice co-founder Shane Smith for impugning the Times ' news judgment: "Before you ever went to Liberia," Carr said, "we've had reporters reporting on genocide after genocide.

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APRIL 2, 2008

I just saw a remarkable film made about a grantee organization that the Global Fund had supported for many years in Liberia. We had at the end of the year, the incredible success of Mexican women's rights groups that have been working for, it must be close to 12 years now, on the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Cambodia: Somaly Mam Acting for Women in Distressing Situations (AFESIP) Canada: Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Center for Environmental Law Colombia: Mayerly Sanchez World Vision Hong Kong: Anson Chan Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The Liberian Education Trust (LET) Mexico: Lydia Cacho Ciamcancun New York: Dr. Angela Diaz (..)

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