Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

For example, a recent project of hers is Startup Box: South Bronx, or [SB] 2 —a nonprofit startup incubator and tech education center that aims to connect the creativity of the South Bronx with the power of the tech industry by bringing together students, startups and community members. [SB]

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Credibility: With more visibility comes increased credibility, presenting the organization as a thought leader and credible voice in its industry. Trade Associations A trade association is an organization where members are professionals in a specific industry. The data you just pulled can help!

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI processes information and makes decisions using algorithms and data. AI is only as objective as its programmers and its data. Humans can invent new ideas and solutions based on emotions, relationships, and a host of other circumstances related to consciousness, while AI systems can only generate new outputs based on existing data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. To the greatest extent possible, be open.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Matt has served in roles focused on the strategic application of technology across a broad spectrum of industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, high-speed discrete manufacturing, and capital markets. Can you offer any advice for finding, gathering, or sourcing good data to inform their strategies?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The policy is designed to increase industrial capacity in electronics recycling, refurbishment, and remanufacturing to increase the number of US-based green jobs and the safe handling of discarded electronics. Electronics refurbishment has truly arrived on the big national stage as an important part of the electronics recycling industry.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With origins in lean manufacturing , many of the principles found in system automation have, in recent years, been more widely adopted by other sectors, including the service and human resources industries. In manufacturing, there are true physical safety concerns. Improve worker safety.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2015

Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is held annually in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for the mobile industry for the coming year. It also influences other areas of the tech world and other industries — including the social sector. The main cost is not the smart phone; it's the cost of the data access.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

Sharp declines in construction severely affected Oregon’s wood products industry and the state experienced high tech manufacturing job losses in the recession. And now they are up to something again: MMT is looking for a million dollar idea to support!

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Cutting back on the administrative headache of tracking credits for certificants is an imperative for the eLearning industry. The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. We think it’s likely that we’ll see a successful pilot integration of EHR data with an external LMS in the next three years.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

My new (and highly affectionate) sobriquet for Perkins is The Educational-Industrial Complex. Can the various systems allow for data sharing or possibly even interoperabilty ? And it's a great mission , one that involves operations that are both complex and disparate.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 18, 2021

By: Cyril Treacy, VP, Industry Advisors & COE at Salesforce. COVAX will achieve this by supporting the research, development, and manufacturing of a wide range of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, and also negotiating procurement and distribution for the 191 countries that have joined the alliance to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

Production units run by the trust manufacture high-quality industrial components, affordable mobility aids, and assistive devices. An efficient mechanism of data entry and collection was worked out, and all employees received email accounts through the organization to maintain safe and fast communication.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Where creating content was once labor-intensive (for instance, taking photos with a digital camera, uploading them to your computer, and then posting them), nowadays the whole process can be done on your smartphone anywhere, anytime (assuming you have a data plan). Facebook has admitted to this trend, and it has also been supported by data.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Yesterday at the NetHope Global Summit , Salesforce President and Chief Financial Officer, Amy Weaver spoke with Dr. Bruce Aylward from the World Health Organization (WHO) about the importance of trust and data to power co-innovation. The post The Power of Trust and Data in Times of Crisis appeared first on Salesforce.org. Amy Weaver.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2021

Through transformative partnerships, Nguyen and Dr. Mack are breaking down silos and blurring the traditional lines between professions, industries, and nations. GAVI has really been looking at the financing, the procurement of the vaccine, contracts with the manufacturers, and then thinking about how to deploy in countries.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Note: This study used statistics from 2007 to 2016 to show the sector’s performance during and immediately after the recession, and also because this was the most recent year that data was available. As you read, keep in mind that some data may have changed, and continue to do research as new studies are released!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Every time we turn around, somebody’s bringing another piece of technology, something that generates data into our organizations. You invest money and budget, data stored in there. The second really big sign that you’re not getting a return on investment, you don’t know whether you can trust your data.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

The group’s grassroots campaigns have forced several paper manufacturers, office supply chains and retail catalog companies (who can forget Forest Ethics’ “Victoria’s Dirty Secret” campaign from a few years ago?) junk mail,” Ball said. Forest Ethics speaks with authority on such topics.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

In 1999 I became an industry analyst doing market research on emerging technologies like e-commerce, and cyber security. All organizations of all sizes now have IT, and information technology collectively has about the same greenhouse gas footprint as the entire airline industry. I started out as a systems developer.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. It was developed out of a class at Harvard, and then a company called Uncharted Play that formed to manufacture the devices. Cloud backup services are oriented to emergency data recovery.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

After reporting on the mobile industry for PCWorld and TechHive.com and working for TechSoup, I've developed a keen eye for the mobile trends that matter for nonprofits and the technologies that will make an impact in the world. With mobile devices becoming more and more like computers, should the PC industry be worried?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2017

To manifest our shared values in action, we commit to amplifying existing work and starting new projects in the following areas: Data security and privacy education for NGOs, activists, and citizens. Playing a role in the global data security infrastructure, particularly to ensure NGOs and civil society as stakeholders are represented.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. data for a chatbot algorithm) or how it will be used (e.g., But the new ignorance has old class roots.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

What about innovative nonprofits like Code for America or Caravan Studios that are encouraging civic and governmental organizations to share often closed sets of data? industries, behind only retail and manufacturing, and nonprofits create total revenue of more than 1.9 Where are they in the Shared City Initiative?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

Behind the scenes, though, we’ll see massive new sets of data available to campaigns for targeting, empowerment, and optimization. This might include where it was produced, how far it traveled, the reputation of the manufacturer, chemical contents, carbon footprint, or the full lifecycle analysis.

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