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Trainer’s Notebook: #Tech2Empower Peru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Greetings from Cusco, Peru! I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru. The program teaches women how to build confidence with self-promotion. The workshop was developed by several women who work at Google.

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Tech2Empower: The Llama Pack Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners. That is what the #Tech2Empower program is all about!

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru. My Three Themes: .

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Holberton raises $20M as it pivots to become an edtech SaaS company

TechCrunch

But early last year, California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) directed the school to immediately cease operation, in part because the agency found that Holberton had started offering a new, unapproved program. After a hearing, the BPPE allowed Holberton to continue to operate its other programs.

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Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI

The Verge

Similar to how researchers have achieved breakthrough AI advances in teaching computers to play sophisticated video games and helping software learn how to manipulate robotic hands in lifelike ways , reinforcement learning is a technique that allows software to teach itself skills through trial and error.

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Y Combinator widens its bet in edtech in latest batch

TechCrunch

Prendea: Peru-based startup that offers live, online after-school classes for Spanish-speaking kids. Avion School: The education startup teaches Filipino students to be remote software engineers around the world. Codingal: An afterschool program for Indian kids to learn coding. Poliglota: A language school for Latin America.

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The Non-Profit That's Using Technology to Put Itself Out of Business | WIRED

AFP Blog

Heifer, founded in 1944, always has believed in the teach-a-man-to-fish model. But after 70 years of giving people fish and teaching them how to fish, the organization is now connecting farmers with computer technology so they can sell the fish, too.

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