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Nuggets of news from the open source world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This is old-ish news, but the acquisition of companies behind open source software by big behemoths continues with the acquisition of Jabber by Cisco. Things might be shifting, though, due to both open source and SaaS as catalysts for change. Open Source, it can be SaaS and Open Source.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

In either case, both Wello and the The Hippo Water Roller Project are searching for creative ways to make these devices affordable to the people who need them now that the technology is ready. People are comparing this venture to Google’s Project Loon. of charities or NGOs that are doing important digital inclusion projects.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

Barclays Bank analyst Ben Reitzes forecasts a 6 percent year-over-year decline in the sales of PCs due to increasing adoption of tablet computers and smartphones. By 2020, Cisco forecasts that there will be 50 billion things connected to the Internet in this way. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013. called Martus.

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