Tech Soup
APRIL 19, 2016
These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. and that year we came in second.
Tech Soup
MARCH 29, 2017
The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. So much innovation.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 20, 2009
So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 8, 2008
Please specify 'Pie Ranch/Green Oaks Fund' in the Designation field of the online donation form. Email a link to your post, a thumbnail image, your name, the country where you live, and one sentence about your pie to Vampituity by Friday, February 22, 2008 at pies (at) rachel (dot) wattlink (dot) net with "Pie Entry" as your subject line.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2009
In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 22, 2007
We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful. Go vote here.
NTEN
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. How can we do that?
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
36 
Let's personalize your content