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Shifting The Conversation: The Anti-Institutional Giving Pool

What we know as an organization-led realm is in an interesting state of flux.

This is a subject I have a professional interest in, and hope to dissect in great detail over the course of the Millennials Changing America Tour. I'll be blogging some of my findings here, and much of the concentration of my NetSquared coverage of the tour will focus on this shift.  

We spend much of our time trying to connect the nonprofit (and the nonprofit minded) with the technologies necessary for the advancement of institutional altruism. However, we spend relatively little time looking at how the technologies necessary for advancement are changing the landscape of the nonprofit realm.

wiki-education

There has always been knowledge available in our communities. The challenge is to give people a tool to make that knowledge available to the rest of the world...promote those tools and teach people how to use them. Another challenge for countries like Macedonia is to get teachers/professors use wiki-like tools in their everyday work and also foster the usage of wiki-tools by students. Again how to promote wiki as an educational tool in a society where the internet and ICT are considered very"difficult, complex and sophisticated" remains the biggest problem. The way knowledge is accessed has  changed, tools for learning and accessing knowledge have changed, everything has changed, but in developing countries we use the same tools, same methods as we used them 50 years ago...

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