article thumbnail

What Makes an Ideal Submission for the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest?

Tech Soup

In celebration of the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest in partnership with NetSquared. For starters, a good app should try to meet a current, real-world need such as the need for clean energy, improving educational attainment, or improving health outcomes.

Contest 56
article thumbnail

Great reads from around the web on September 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

." NYC Startup CatchAFire.org Launches Site To Match Skilled Volunteers And Charities – "Catchafire.org, a service to find and match volunteers with professional skills and charitable organizations in need of their help, will open its website to the public today after about a year in private beta testing."

Web 120
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

One cool project that came out of a RHoK event is InfoPlace Kenya , an Android application for information and directions of essential places in Kenya like hospitals, tourists attractions, restaurants, educational facilities, and more. The hackathons are themed around a certain issue, such as education or mHealth (mobile health).

article thumbnail

Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

And the Winners Are… After a few weeks of coding, sourcing ideas, and testing public interest, the projects were again open to the public for voting. Ttaram aims to improve education in Kosovo. The finalists were paired up with technologists to develop a platform that could be worked on in a series of code sprints.

Serbia 52
article thumbnail

Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

It originally appeared on NetSquared. Private companies are also testing the concept by actually sharing data. Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global.

Africa 47
article thumbnail

NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

Nptech 50
article thumbnail

NpTech: Summer Vacations, Who Let the NpTech Dogs Out, and IPhone Fundraising!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ian Wilker is happy about the Google Apps Education Education being available to. DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Some transitions at npower and omidyar. Google Aps. What do you think?

Nptech 50