The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This year Benin, Bolivia, Denmark, Panama, and Sri Lanka launched national GivingTuesday movements, and GivingTuesday launched its Europe Hub, which joins the Africa, India, Latin America & the Caribbean, and U.S. & Participants who volunteered in the U.S. was estimated at 9.2 was estimated at 16.6 million, a 17% jump.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka. Sanjana didn’t hear back.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2005

Benetech's Patrick Ball was on National Public Radio's Morning Edition show today in a piece entitled Uncertainty the Rule in Gauging Deaths from Tsunami. Our staff are actively working in the region in Sri Lanka and East Timor, but on December 26th were not in harm's way.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations. Given the difficulties of face to face politics and public space control, many of the people 30 and under stay home where they can be online and be free. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

They highlight the degree to which Facebook employees are aware of the gaps in their knowledge about issues in the public interest, and their efforts to learn more. But even the United Nations supports only six official languages ; Facebook has native speakers moderating posts in more than 70.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the Associated Press reports , National Nuclear Security Administration deputy division director Rob Plonski described the firings on LinkedIn as undermining the very systems that secure our nations future. When Elez resigned after the Wall Street Journal exposed his racist tweets , Musk made a public display of hiring him back.)

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