Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The session was pretty successful, in that the Committee called for an extraordinary general assembly meeting in December with the aim of calling a diplomatic conference to finalize the Treaty for the Visually Impaired in June 2013. Everyone who is not disabled globally can directly access Amazon.com and order books.

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MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for eight years now. PC Rebuilders and Recyclers (PCRR) is our newest RCI refurbishment partner and is now providing enhanced tech support to our program. With a catalog.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. The app was created by Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup Global, with financial support from Microsoft Citizenship. Stay tuned!

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. I could go on and on about this one so I'll just tell you what I've been reading on the topic: University of Toronto: A Global Overview of Digital Wallet Technologies. We sincerely invite your nonprofit or library tech news nominations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

At the recent Spark13 conference (also known as the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres) in Granada, Spain, TechSoup Global launched OneRoof. On May 29, 2013, TechSoup Global CEO Rebecca Masisak spoke at the 4th Global Forum on Telecentres in Granada, Spain. View a video of her presentation here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

TechSoup kicked off its 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with the webinar Creating a Culture of Storytelling. The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. Escondido Library's LibraryYOU. How to Create a Culture of Storytelling.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

TechSoup Global’s CEO Rebecca Masisak is presenting at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 this month in Minneapolis. The Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 is having some of my heroes speak at the event. TechSoup is now helping to improve technology for charities and libraries in 40 countries.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

Since Earth Day 2013, the eCycle Best has recycled more than 34,000 gadgets. Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, released a free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and other working with youth locate free meal sites in the summer. 11,000 were laptops. Images: iFixit.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. It made us think about ways we could bring good dependable low-cost computers to nonprofits and libraries. Refurbished Computers in the TechSoup Global Network.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters. What can you do with your mobile site?

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2015

If you requested a Windows upgrade license through TechSoup after August 3, 2013, you have active Software Assurance for that license, and you'll be able to download the upgrade for free on that date. Windows 10 will be available for download through the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) on August 3, 2015. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Despite declining sales, well over 300 million PCs will be sold worldwide this year while tablet sales are in the range of 200 million in 2013. Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

Mobile World Congress , an annual tech conference in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for global technology trends in the coming year. You can read about some of these apps in on our Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries page. You don't need any programming experience to build an app for your nonprofit or library, either.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Here's the latest.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Of course, this is a familiar concept to me as someone who started his career building for-profit tech companies in Silicon Valley. We were trying to analyze the Benetech secret sauce: how do we go about changing the world for the better as Silicon Valley’s deliberately nonprofit tech company? Enter the Born Accessible movement.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. His big prediction was that 2012 would be a breakout year for mobile computing in nonprofit tech. The Forecasts for 2012.

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