Location: Asia
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Educating and Empowering Orphans in Vietnam with EdTech
In March 2016, two Adobe principal product managers joined our project as eager volunteers, to return to the orphanages of Vietnam with our partner Orphan Impact and bring human centered design thinking to their technology and career planning curricula. As part of their storytelling and reflective practice post-project, Tom and Cathi used the innovative tools…
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Extending Digital Literacy and English Skills Through New Technology in Cambodia
For the last two weeks of March 2016, Team4Tech immersed 10 volunteers from enterprise software company Box in the educational landscape of Siem Reap, Cambodia. Our objective: strengthening the capacity of the local education nonprofit Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC) to enhance the quality of their programs by integrating digital resources and technology-assisted tools.
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Building Digital Literacy Among Girls and Teachers in India
In total, we spent 54 workshop hours with 14 teachers and coordinators from CARE India and Udaan schools from three states. The immediate beneficiaries of the project will be the 100 girls Udaan Hardoi admits annually. However, the number of potential beneficiaries is over 16,000 learners, as the teachers and coordinators we trained from the…
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Extending Design Thinking to Education in Vietnam
Stanford University’s d.school is considered one of the most innovative educational institutions out there, with its core philosophy of Design Thinking. As an undergraduate from Stanford’s Product Design program, I spent four years studying Design Thinking in the context of product design for both developed and developing markets. So, what does this Silicon-Valley-born methodology have to do…
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Reflections from Box’s Sameera Salari
Box is a company that prides itself on the connectedness and productivity that good technology can bring to the day-to-day lives of our users. Along with other volunteers from companies like Visa and Facebook, three Boxers were able to deliver on this vision to some of Vietnam’s most underserved citizens. Liz Tacy, Lauren Ziskie and…
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Empowering and Teaching Women to Overcome Cultural Oppression in India
Eleven Intuit volunteers came from five countries – the United States, Canada, Singapore, the United Kingdom and India – arriving at all hours of the day and night in the hardscrabble city of Ghaziabad in rural India. And they shared a common goal: To help 60 women overcome cultural oppression by teaching them the skills…
