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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup

Joaquin was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University. Joaquin currently serves on TechSoup Global's board of directors. Mikey has published two books, including the Bradt Travel Guide to Bangladesh. Erinn Andrews. Bailey Rosser.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. A recent graduate of Rice University, Lum is working on her PhD in statistics at Duke University.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

The idea that we can all have free education through university level, or that we will all have free health care, I think really begins to shift the way that we relate to each other and really establishes a basis for strong community, both between racial lines, but also across racial lines, across language lines.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

Have Fun - Do Good

Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. Now the Sudan Divestment Task Force has divested over two dozen US states, 50 universities, more than 15 cities, and placed Federal restrictions on Sudan linked investments. This was in 2006.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

The following is an excerpt from Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism (2021) by Phil Jones, reprinted with permission from Verso Books. But Amazon is less the ‘everything store’, more a universal logistics system. A global ‘servant economy’ beckons, writes Jason E. ã 2021 Verso Books.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: It’s vacation week for me, not publishing much this week or next accept for guest posts and a few book reviews or if I find inspiration. From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good.

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