Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend. Human rights monitors in Nigeria continue to be harassed. The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

Isaac from Nigeria makes mobile toilets and gives them to poor widows to use to generate income: "shit business is serious business." She also explained that the illiterate poor women she serves are more committed to literacy for their children than for themselves. I have had great chats with different social entrepreneurs.

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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

Broadcasting lessons over the radio in Nigeria: As an Education Champion and founder of ACE Charity, Kiki James runs safe space clubs to help equip girls in northern Nigeria with the tools they need to realize their ambitions. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society. She says that although using technology and open data tools can be “dangerous” in some countries, they can still be used in other spheres of government as for example BudgIT in Nigeria.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They talked about the economic value of housework, and the importance of education and literacy in gaining economic independence." T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

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