Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend. During my first visit to the Nigerian capital of Abuja last April, I learned that a member of the NHRC who had been monitoring local elections had been beaten and unlawfully detained. Human rights monitors in Nigeria continue to be harassed.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There’s Olutosin in Lagos, Nigeria. There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. That’s just the beginning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

To mitigate the impacts of this pandemic on girls and secure a better future, we’ve found that supporting locally-led initiatives works best. Profound Change Starts With Local Partners. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM. with radio-based education during the pandemic.

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