Talks on nonprofit photography, e-learning, SMS communication (Beijing, Dec 3)

Tomorrow evening, the Storygarden Cafe in Beijing will host a free NGO salon, featuring talks by Wang Bo, a documentary photographer whose recent work has focused on poor students in Western China, and Emyln Phillips, a lecturer at the International College of Beijing with interests in knowledge management and e-learning.

Wang Bo will share some of his experiences, and photographs. His work has led to the creation of the Westup website, which encourages donations to assist poor students to continue their studies. (Talk in Chinese only).

Emyln Phillips will talk about the open-source e-learning software Moodle, the easy-to-use SMS messaging system FrontlineSMS, which is aimed specifically at non-profit organizations, and also the Ushahidi platform, a tool for gathering and reporting crisis information from the community in real-time. (Talk in English, with Chinese translation).

The Storygarden Cafe is located close to the Xizhimen Subway Station; for directions consult this map. Tomorrow's event is one in a series of regular NGO salons held at the cafe. The original announcement on the Storygarden Cafe blog is here (link in Chinese).