Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 26, 2004

I've been in South Africa for just two days and have had several exciting meetings. My base of operations has been the IDP Africa Forum 2004, a conference for organizations serving the blind throughout Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 4, 2010

Next year it will be in South Africa. This year's Summit is being held in conjunction with the Social Enterprise World Forum, which was in Australia last year and Scotland the year before that. This Summit will be my swan song in a leadership role at the Alliance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

And then, we dashed off to get some fondue, dress up for the big South Africa party, and stay out ‘til 2 listening to great music and talking shop (just a little). The newbies were a bit stunned by Davos, and were like kids in a candy store talking about the contacts they had made that would advance their work.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 31, 2009

Eric spent 2 weeks in South Africa, then we went right in to Call-on Congress, C3 ’s annual grassroots training and lobby day. Isn’t it sad that I only blog here to introduce March and then now, to close it out? What a month. Laini’s Bat Mitzvah is in a month.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 20, 2004

Being part of the Schwab Social Entrepreneur program, I had met Garth Japhet from South Africa, who works in this field, and I wanted to understand more of what he does. I attended a dinner at the Africa Economic Summit on the topic, and what was surprising was how little interest the business community showed in it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa), talked about the opportunities in market failure. I just want to share some of the voices I've heard so far this week. These are based on my contemporaneous notes. It will give you a great idea of why this is such a blast.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2007

Moving on to dinner, I sat next to Garth Japhet of Soul City in South Africa, a doctor/social entrepreneur who leads an organization that uses media to influence behavior that affects HIV/AIDS. He gave me the direct advice of a social entrepreneur in the middle of marketing his first book: immensely useful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

I've just returned from organizing an electronics recycling conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where I met Dr. Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. It's located on the southwest Atlantic coast of Africa.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The run, set to begin today, October 2, is a 250-kilometer journey through the Sahara Desert ending at the Pyramids of Giza for the purpose of raising money for South African nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). TechSoup's partner in South Africa SANGONeT , that like TechSoup was founded in 1987, organized the No Pain No Gain fundraiser.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 3, 2009

Eric spent 2 weeks in March on an assignment in South Africa. March is our crazy month, and this year was no exception. Call-on Congress was hugely successful this year, and we’re just doing more (but still with less). With everything else and a puppy that still wants lots of attention, I about lost my mind.

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Candid

JULY 17, 2024

Respondents in 12 countries trust in NGOs ‘to do what is right’ More than 60% of respondents said they trusted NGOs “to do what is right” in 12 out of 28 countries: India, Kenya, Nigeria, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This year’s No Pain No Gain campaign aims to expand key SANGONeT services to support nonprofit organizations in South Africa. In addition to financial donations, they hope to raise awareness and support for other nonprofits at the forefront of development and community in South Africa.

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Candid

DECEMBER 23, 2021

That choice also made possible Ford’s steadfast support for the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and Frank’s personal friendship with Nelson Mandela. There was nothing that communicated it more than the choice of Franklin Thomas as President of what was then the largest philanthropic foundation on the planet.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2010

This well-attended session featured eleven scientists who are dedicated to embedding scientific and technological awareness, capacity, innovation and application in the culture, commerce and aspirations of every African society. read more.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

A couple weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming e-waste and refurbishment standards conference in South Africa that I was co-organizing. To identify industry leaders in Africa willing to be early adopters of international standards. I’ve already written about some of it in my post on How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

Julia was paired with another "interviewer," who was a woman transitioning from an IT background into nonprofit program delivery, and together they interviewed a former professor from South Africa who was trying to get more involved in curriculum design and research in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2011

When Cancer Council SA (that’s South Australia, not South Africa) started the Ambassador Project as an experiment in revitalizing volunteerism and community fundraising , jumping in to the social media pond was not even on the agenda. Wading into the social media pond … one step at a time guest post by Matt Sarre.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Nelson Mandela spent four-plus decades as an activist and freedom fighter and 27 years in prison because the demeaning National Party policy of apartheid in South Africa impeded black South Africans’ ability to live with human dignity. Out of that anguish was born the long struggle of the birth control movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Their meeting featured a special conversation via Skype with girls in South Africa as part of the Girl Up Campaign’s emphasis on uniting girls around the world. These philanthroteens lead workshops on advocacy, communications and learned about their peers in developing countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Schwab Foundation board members Paolo Coehlo (the noted Brazilian author), Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa) and Hilde Schwab, the co-founder of the Schwab Foundation. On Monday we were joined by a dazzling array of global leaders who are interested in social entrepreneurship.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We spoke to four food security organizations in Colombia, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States to better understand the challenges facing organizations working in food security and the ways the pandemic has shifted operations for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

It was created by Roy Blumenthal , an artist who lives in South Africa with many talents! By Roy Blumenthal. This is my pay it forward portrait. I met Roy via the portrait he did for Dave Wallace's web site and communicated via flickr.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 14, 2013

Nelson Mandela: A South African anti-apartheid. revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa. from 1994 to 1999, Mandela was the first black South African to hold the office, and the first elected in a fully representative, multiracial. Hated by Winston Churchill and others, he was imprisoned.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2006

Sangonet , an organization that focuses on capacity building with ICT for NGOS in South Africa, recently announced the finalists for the NGO Web awards. After the explanation of th judging process, I found this note: Low Budget Options and Freebies For NGOs who. lack the necessary funds and expertise for the development of their.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2009

While they note that their use of social media tools is behind countries like Nigeria, Uganda, or South Africa, there are promising signs that individuals like journalists and students are using such tools to monitor and report on the ongoing elections. One blogger in particular, Patricia Maganu, notes that: read more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

A group of us touring, studying, and volunteering in Cape Town, South Africa Seriously! You can find her on twitter @ajlovesya , on facebook , or visit her at allisonj.org Allison Jones, Millennial Leader: How I Have Fun, Do Good How do I have fun and do good? I invite people along for the ride.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

He plans to start a search fund (a vehicle for entrepreneurs to raise funds from investors) to find businesses – and intellectual property – that have a social focus to help out developing countries, particularly South Africa.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. We received a lot of surprising findings like the fact that more than half of respondents worldwide indicated they would be moving to the cloud within two to three years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 21, 2007

December 25th, 9 PM EST, Frontline/World will be re-broadcasting four "do good" stories about Kiva in Uganda, PlayPumps in South Africa, the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Poland, and Juan Quezada and Mata Ortiz pottery in Mexico.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

Its fun to look at the petition and see people signed up from Djibouti to Brazil There is a cell phone component to the campaign that has caused it to really take off in South Africa. Check it out, [link]. . . . Stephanie McAuliffe is the Director of Human Resources at the Packard Foundation.

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Forum One

JANUARY 21, 2009

Arnold Christianson from the National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa will be PRB's guest for the discussion. Consider the topic for tomorrow, 1/22, at 1:00 EST: " Birth Defects: A Hidden Toll for Developing Countries."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

Representatives from Connecting Up Australia , Frontier Foundation (Taiwan), Hong Kong Council of Social Service , NASSCOM Foundation (India), and NGO Pulse (South Africa) were in attendance. It's great to spend time with partners and learn more about the work they're doing and challenges they face.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

David Barnard has completed six of these grueling races: The Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa (its name is derived from a Tswana word meaning "the great thirst"). David lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and describes himself as a keen sportsman, but strangely doesn't think of himself as a runner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was very fortunate that in October 2004 in South Africa, there was a meeting of social change market places that was convened, and I met Buzz Schmidt, Founder of GuideStar. We want to have the entire population of non-profit organizations on an online system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

2) Consult with the bridging organizations as key informants and perhaps engage them in initial convening to form a GRI South Africa network; and. This descriptive analysis suggests the following strategy: 1) Put the environment on the back burner for the moment, since economic-social issues are more dominant; .

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2008

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event. Ann Curry, News Anchor for The Today Show , and Co-Anchor of Dateline NBC will emcee.

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