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12 Useful, Well-Designed, Worth-Downloading Android Apps Created by Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But thanks to a strategy focused on bringing low-cost smartphones to the masses worldwide, Google’s Android surged to a whopping 68% share of the global smartphone market in the second quarter of 2012. That’s four times the 17% global market share held by Apple. National Wildlife Federation :: What Did Snakey Eat?

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. What this means?

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Digital Wallets.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers.

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10 Years of PeaceTalks: What Does Peace Mean to You?

Saleforce Nonprofit

From the existential threat of human extinction to wars ravaging around the world, deadly forest fires and flooding, the ongoing threat to women’s rights globally — the list goes on and on. This is why the PeaceTalks platform was created 10 years ago with the first ever Geneva PeaceTalks being held in 2013 at the United Nations.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!) government and states like Texas.

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The Upcoming E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference in South Africa

Tech Soup

As collection and processing of e-waste and discarded electronics in Africa reaches worrisome proportions, industry leaders and policymakers from all over the world are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on June 7, 2013. Africa now has more mobile phone users than either the U.S. or European Union or Latin America.