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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup

A recent World Economic Forum report estimates that shifting to this model could add more than $1 trillion every year to the global economy by 2025 and create 100,000 new jobs within the next five years. Clic Vert is a significant international environmental and ICT for development project that is not well known outside of France and Africa.

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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

Jim will be there to help kick things off and to report back on the latest industry news from Europe. The organization collects and refurbishes IT and biomedical equipment in Europe and supplies it to NGOs and hospitals in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. ICRS Goes to Europe. spanhidden.

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Hold my calls

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Last weekend I met Canadian filmmaker Sylvain l'Esperance, whose wonderful documentary about life in the Niger Inland Delta region of Mali was showing at the Toronto Hot Docs film festival. To we technologically inclined folks this may seem obvious, but not everyone sees it. But the preponderance of what I read convinces me he's wrong.

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