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N2Y4 Mobile Challenge and Conference

Amy Sample Ward

2billion people are carrying mobile phones every day. The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Location: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA. Blow your mind. Sessions promise to cover leading theories and practices. Hotel: Visit N2Y4 for more info.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. Well, the time is upon us. smartphones.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2013

Tech Soup

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news out in NGO-land. Four winners will receive $3,500 in cash prizes donated by by Cisco, and also free registrations to the upcoming NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis in April. Winning apps can receive $15,000 cash prizes and Windows 8 phones!

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. By 2020, Cisco forecasts that there will be 50 billion things connected to the Internet in this way.

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