Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

We are so thrilled to have these groups coming together to work on local projects and would love to have your city start a Net Tuesday group, too! Lomé, Togo. Their work has catalyzed the local community looking for technology and social change projects. Are you in one of these cities? Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Hamburg, Germany.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Nearly 850 intentional shutdowns have been recorded over the past 10 years by nonprofit Access Now’s Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP), and although the group acknowledges that data on incidents before 2016 is “patchy,” some 768 of these shutdowns took place in the last five years.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

While pursuing a business degree at NYU Ibrahim met Nichols, who had been working on large-scale solar projects in the U.S., His father was born in Tanzania and his mother grew up in Kenya and they eventually found their way to the U.S. But growing up, Ibrahim was told stories about East Africa.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

Created in 1992, Ateliers du Bocage (the name roughly translates to forest workshop) was founded as a project of the Emmaus Social Movement , a postwar European humanitarian movement organized to nonviolently defend and support the most destitute members of society. To date, the project has collected and recycled over half a million phones.

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