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The State of the Internet 2014

Tech Soup

billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China. Global Internet adoption growth is actually slowing compared to previous years. About a quarter of Internet traffic is now on smartphones, and about a third of all mobile phones (5.2 The latest edition has lots of NPTech insights.

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Will the move to, for instance, tablet and phone computing be a net positive or negative benefit in terms of resource consumption? We leave that to China, Ghana, and other countries. And, between phones, tablets, e-readers, laptops, desktops, servers, routers … it’s an incredible amount of resource consumption and waste.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region. We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China.

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Net2Local: Year-End Revelations

Tech Soup

Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. China, Cameroon, Uganda and Kenya. ” “One byte at a time.” ” Community Highlights. So, those are some big numbers, what does it actually look like?

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

We recently saw this in the Google/China case where Chinese crackers (bad hackers) broke into activist Gmail accounts. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. How smart are my phones? Am I hiring the right people?

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. We all work every day to help impact the lives of orphaned and impoverished children in China. Oh the hours!!

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. We all work every day to help impact the lives of orphaned and impoverished children in China. Oh the hours!!

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