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Daniel Ben Horin

Country: United States
Field Of Work: Civic Engagement
Subsectors: Capacity Building,
Technology/Information Technology
Target Population: Citizen Sector Organizations
Organization: Tech Soup
Year Elected: 2009

This profile was prepared when Daniel Ben Horin was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2009.
For more than 20 years, Daniel Ben-Horin has designed ways to systematically engage technology specialists, donors, and partners with citizen organizations (COs). Recognizing that citizen organizations were last in line at the technology table for reasons of costs, time, and education, Daniel has built an online architecture and community centered around the needs of COs. To date, TechSoup Global has facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars of hardware and software product donations, reduced the intimidation factor around technology for nonprofits, and engaged the technology community more broadly in the needs of the social sector. As a result, multi-faceted networks have emerged to bring technology to nonprofits, create innovative solutions to alleviate social injustices, and more recently, help facilitate the movement of social capital. TechSoup currently works with 18 partners in 23 countries and aims to increase the number of countries from 23 to 60 by the year 2011, branching out to under served areas of Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.


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