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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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How to Implement a Data-Driven Approach to Fundraising

Saleforce Nonprofit

Photo copyright: The National Aquarium. These seemingly basic upgrades fixed things that their previous donor prospect research software lacked, which often resulted in inaccurate donor information and led to asks where the prospect did not have nearly the level of wealth that the old system indicated they did. The Old Ways.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’ve already made a huge difference in the area of software for students with disabilities and for human rights and environmental organizations. The most typical means of accessibility is to use software that reads the digital text aloud in a computer-synthesized voice. What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’.

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