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Kiva Gets it Right
Yesterday I gave an example about how one NGO got it all wrong in the social media space. Today I’ve got an example of a group that has it 95% correct. Kiva.org is a micro-finance institution that...
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Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008
The Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 brought together core activists from different local anti-censorship groups, NGO’s representatives and tools developers. Day One was devoted to discussing...
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2009 Tech Predictions
1. Social Venture Acquisitions It happens in every industry, A few companies are breakout successes and everyone wants piece. In this case Clean Tech and Social Ventures ‘doing good’ will increasingly...
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This Week In Appfrica [Jan 25 – 31, 2009]
“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week. If you’re interested in becoming an advertiser on this blog, head over the sponsor page for details...
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The Best and Worst Project Management Apps
In “Global Web Apps Failing the World Market” I looked at a number of web tools that claimed to be universal but failed the market in offering functionality that truly made them universal. Lately, I’ve...
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Bit Torrent in Developing Countries
Where bandwidth is plentiful it’s become a curse to the media industry. The television studios hate it because people don’t need TiVo when the latest episode of Lost is available on PirateBay the day...
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$62 Billion For the U.S. Non-Profit Sector?
Could LA Time’s columnist Christopher Knight have found a way to revitalize the U.S. economy in the most unlikely of places…the non-profit sector? Congress is closing in on the down payment of a huge...
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Who's Killing African Entrepreneurship?
There was an interesting discussion over at Megan McArdle’s blog about whether or not NGOs retard entrepreneurship in developing countries. Her post was in response to this from Matt Rognlie… “Africans...
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