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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This week in San Francisco, technologists and human rights advocates are meeting at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (or RightsCon )to grapple with the realities of how we better manage the human rights implications of new technologies. At WITNESS, we’ve been wrestling with the promise and peril of new communications technologies.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. Social Media. Shared.com.

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12 Not-So-Great Realities About Nonprofits and Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. The survey for the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report is now available in English , French , and Spanish.

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How Charities Get Tech Support in Uganda

Tech Soup

It's tough out there everywhere for NGOs and charities to get help with their technology. For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. NGOs have many needs here. We have people who come from NGOs such as the Cape of Good Hope.

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Cambodia Bloggers Summit: Help Young Cambodian Bloggers Join the Global Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. Personal Information Technology Workshop ??? tools) can make their study, work, and life easier.

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most surprising technologies for good. Here is what we've found out about how drone technology is being used to benefit humanity. Precision agriculture is one of the fastest areas of growth for civilian drone technology. What Are Drones, Anyway? In the U.S.,

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Blogging To Improve Cambodia's Environment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. How does your NGO use technology to support your advocacy and education work? Cross-posted on Global s. Mlup Baitong???s It is a benefit.