Stories: Tech
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How a Global Christian Hackathon Is Reprogramming the Church
Do not be alarmed: there are no known bands of Jesus fish-sporting, vigilante hackers patrolling the cyber underworld. But in 13 cities this weekend — including Jakarta, Bangalore, Addis Ababa, Guatemala City, London, Waterloo, Atlanta, and Raleigh-Durham — more than 800 Christian coders, developers, programmers, designers, pastors, and artists gathered together for a 48-hour simultaneous hackathon. They scripted, designed, collaborated, and...
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Inside the Mansion Where Brazil’s Startups Get Incubated
The city of Sao Paulo doesn't have an entrepreneurial culture like that which exists in San Francisco and New York. But the Startup Mansion, located next to an art gallery down a quaint one-way street in a tech-heavy district of Brazil's largest city, is like a little slice of Silicon Valley in South America. Started...
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Radio y móvil, armas campesinas
Hace siete años en su casa de Nambala, un pueblo chiquito al norte de Tanzania, Mariam Ally, 50 años, rostro redondo y lozano, labios como gajos de naranja, pensó que se moría. Su marido acababa de fallecer de sida y ella enfermó del estómago durante cinco meses, medio má...;
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Mobile Midwife Empowers Ghanaian Women
Faith-based organizations have been working in international development for decades impacting areas of access to clean water, child protection, disaster response, food and agriculture, education, health and economic development. With the expansion of mobile technology across the African continent, the possibilities of using cell phones to reach vulnerable populations is drastically improving access to health care and empowering communities. World...
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iSchool Unlocks E-Learning in the Developing World
Rachel Ngongola's second grade class at the Tico Community School is learning to count multiples of 10 on a Wednesday morning in late July. The class of 30 is divided into three groups: one counts clusters of plastic bottle caps, one scribbles addition problems into lined paper notebooks and a third sprawls across the floor, huddled in groups of two...
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State Leaders in Nigeria Offer Skills Trainings to Combat High Illiteracy and Unemployment
While applying to university, Isabella Anna Anzolo, 20, enrolled in a free computer literacy training offered by a local organization in Lafia, the capital of Nigeria’s Nasarawa state. Anzolo says she wanted to gather new skills to make her marketable for a job in case she does not receive acceptance to university. “As a young girl or...
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Building a Healthy Digital Archive
We’ve all been there. You accidentally delete an important work project and unthinkingly empty your trash. Your PC succumbs to a virus. Your laptop gets run over by a car. And you sit, numbly, too heartbroken for tears, as you realize that a labor of love—or, at least, tons of time—has been lost forever. ...