Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2015

From the ideas and information shared in these workshops, the Red Cross published a report called A Vision for the Humanitarian Use of Emerging Technology for Emerging Needs. Reporting from the Challenge, the LA Times described an ape-like robot called CHIMP, a wheeled robot named RoboSimian, and a pink-haired humanoid named THOR-RD.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

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. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. Read more stories on our Local Impact Map from around the world that show the impact of technology donations on organizations and communities like yours.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Encouragement, Wise Words from Nonprofit Tech Devotees , Hilborn Charity. Report From 13NTC , Norman Reiss. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Number of: Registered Attendees: 1671.

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MAY 7, 2013

Countries represented: 13 (US, Canada, UK, Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Nepal, Mexico, and Ghana). Encouragement, Wise Words from Nonprofit Tech Devotees , Hilborn Charity. Report From 13NTC , Norman Reiss. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Number of: Registered Attendees: 1671.

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