For my first “Feature Friday,” I’ve decided to highlight kiwanja.net for the truly innovative and exciting work they are doing. kiwanja.net helps pioneer new applications of mobile technology to push forward positive social and environmental change in the developing world. kiwanja.net helps “empower local, national, and international non-profit organisations to make better use of information…
I recently ran across the University of California Berkeley Human Rights Center, which held a Mobile Challenge to invite projects and innovations utilizing cutting-edge mobile technology to aid human rights work. I immediately fell in love with this project because it’s something I strongly believe in: law and human rights working together can benefit so…
Right now, I’m just floating on a cloud of excitement, hope, and anticipation. I’ve been offered a summer internship in Geneva in one of my favorite organizations, a young and innovative non-profit working to combat torture and human rights violations in the developing world. What is so exciting about this organization is that they really…
Technology can do so much – it’s connected people everywhere in a common language, given people increasing amounts of knowledge and information, created an increasingly globalized world, and now — it’s revolutionizing even democratization. Technology, itself, is democratic. It allows anyone to post content on the ever-growing web and gives people immediate access to huge…