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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. The internet is not new.

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Joins Mozilla Maker Party 2016. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Women and Web Literacy Program 2016 – 17.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Plus, we recently spotted this article on the Open Source Africa site. Africa is definitely getting more attention from us.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

It is part of the AfDB’s ‘ Africa Information Highway ’ initiative, which enabled the introduction of live data links between the AfDB, National Statistical Offices, Central Banks and relevant ministries in all 54 countries. Open Source data NetSquared big data'

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

Tech Soup

In this Alliance Magazine article David Bonbright, chief executive of Keystone Accountability explains that while the Markets for Good initiative intended to develop a philanthropic ecosystem and social change information marketplace that gave the most marginalized a voice, in reality this has not been the case.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. Surveyor is for teams collecting multiple data types from many sources.

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