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NYU Heyman Center Philanthropy 3.0 Speaker Series: Mobile & Micro Philanthropy
1. NYU Heyman Center
Philanthropy 3.0 Speaker
Series:
Mobile and Micro Philanthropy
How mobile is helping to elevate African
voices and causes
Presented by Liz Ngonzi
April 11, 2012
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2. “Until the lion has his or her
own storyteller, the hunter will
always have the best part of the
story."
~ Ewe-mina Proverb
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3. “Umuntu Media's Mimiboard
will enable and improve trade
and communication on a
hyper-local level in Africa.”
~ Umuntu Media
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4. MPrep brings
education to the
masses through SMS-
based learning.
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5. Through this
initiative, African
youth were able
to share photos
and videos
depicting the
effects of
climate change
on their
respective
communities.
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6. The M-PESA Mobile Payment
system enabled Kenyans both rich
and poor to participate in this
campaign to assist their fellow
countrymen, affected by the
famine.
7. During the 2012 Villages in Action
conference in Uganda, 10 village
girls were able to share their views
about their community, in a global
tweetchat that reached 1.5 million
people.
8. Image: Source:
M-PESA Agent Image: http://www.reuters.com/article/slideshow/i
dUSTRE55000D20090601#a=1
African Woman on Mobile Phone: http://www.afribiz.net/content/the-rise-of-
the-global-african-youth-consumer
The Kafue Daily: http://umuntu-
media.pressdoc.com/31643-mimiboard-
to-boost-african-trade-on-hyper-local-
level
Mprep: http://textmprep.com/mPrep2/How_It_Wo
rks.html
Connect4Climate Homepage Screenshot: http://www.connect4climate.org/
KenyansforKenya Homepage Screenshot: http://www.kenyansforkenya.org/
Villages in Action Website Screenshot: http://villagesinaction.com/
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Notas do Editor
“In September 2010, international organizations, heads of state, celebrities and specialists gathered to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)…set in 2000 to achieve eight anti-poverty goals by 2015. In the midst of the coverage of these grand events, high profile attendees wined, dined and debated the relative merits of each MDGs plan, while the actual “poor,” were not invited to these elite events.Project Diaspora decided to change perceptions about the poor by building the Villages in Action platform whereby the voices of the poor can be heard. On November 27, 2010, the first conference was held in a village outside Masindi, Uganda. The goal of this one-day conference was to showcase the grassroots efforts driving economic development and improving the lives of the community – all with little or no assistance from international aid organizations. In January 2012, Villages in Action partnered with GirlUp in a tweetchat that enabled these eight rural Ugandan girls to share their questions with the world spurring a conversation that reached over 1.5 million people (including Ivanka Trump) and generated over 4 million impressions on Twitter. This truly demonstrates the power of social media to amplify a message, empower girls and hopefully open up their world such that they aspire to leadership positions.