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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

Now more than ever, we rely on our devices and the internet to connect to the outside world. Using free public wireless networks to access the internet on your computer or cell phone can put you at risk. These kinds of attacks enable them to see your activity and steal your data while you access the internet.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

Japan has a structured system based on their Law for the Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances and their Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources. It now has a quarter billion Internet users and 450 million mobile phone users. They operate a network of around 500 collection points.

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Jewish Television Network Delivers Online Religious Service

See3

I am watching in Japan, the nearest synagogue is in a different city. When I found that this service was on the internet, I was excited to be able to attend via internet. I am a student at Bowling Green State University and cannot make it home for services, this is a great way for me to participate in a service while at school.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

all the green is WhatsApp. It works in areas with slow internet. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. So it’s a great tool for areas that have low internet connection. . So this is.