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A View of the Cloud from India

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This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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What if Cloud Vendors Go Out of Business or Delete Your Account?

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This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Can cloud vendors simply close your account without notice?

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

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Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. This is a group of largely self-organizing digital volunteers who use Twitter to respond to all of the major disasters around the world. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters.

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

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I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" Search LinkedIn and Google groups. And the IFRC, my organization, has a Learning Network with many free courses for volunteers. Some are free.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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It's mind boggling how something like this could be harnessed for digital inclusion and social sector organizations. Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. It's apparently a real WiFi router that will connect as many as five devices.

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A View of the Cloud from the United States

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In July 2011, TechSoup.org conducted a survey of nonprofits on their current use of cloud services, their plans for adopting cloud services, their expectations on costs, and their barriers to cloud adoption. About a third are using software as a service like Google Apps, or Salesforce.com, or a cloud database.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

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TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. One little bright spot is that some former Google and NSA engineers have gotten together to launch a free service called Disconnect Search.

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