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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

c) TechSoup should stick to its knitting of being an opinion-free provider of donated and low-cost software and hardware and not offer opinions on social and political issues. More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. The new textbook teaches the use of Khmer language Free and Open Source applications, such as OpenOffice, Mekhala (Firefox) and Moyura (Thunderbird), which have been fully translated to Khmer language (Cambodian).

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. CTO, Greenpeace International.

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Cambodia and Technology Intersection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some resources that I recently blogged at Cambodia4kids blog, may be of interest here: International Open Source Network : An online comunity of open source advocates working in the Asia-Pacific Region. Khmer Open Source Software Project is not just technical, but cultural too.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

Asia and the Pacific Rim. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. Asia and the Pacific Rim. Africa and the Middle East. Central and South America.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper. Nonprofit Tech Software + Mobile Phones = Citizen reporting?

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Shovel-ready Online Civic Projects #1: Global Development Commons

Forum One

We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services. irrigation management in South Asia? In our view these ?online online civic infrastructure?

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