Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" — a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and the Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Africa and the Middle East. Asia and the Pacific Rim.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The overwhelming majority of editors on the page, according to Wikipedia’s own breakdown , work in English, and a full 20 percent of editors live in the US while no editors live in Africa. It will be worth following them to see how their next strategic plan brings all of these ambitious ideas together for the future.—Anne Anne Eigeman.

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AFP Blog

MAY 20, 2011

Since then, the open source platform has been deployed 12,000 times across the globe, from earthquakes in Haiti, New Zealand and Australia to the tsunami in Japan this year.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa + Middle East. TARGET END LINKS ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. Africa + Middle East.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The link need to be like so: Africa. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> Central and South America. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Africa is definitely getting more attention from us. Susan Bazilli, an international human rights attorney, recently brought Martus to the attention of the women's rights community in Africa, through a posting to the Women's Information Technology Transfer site. Plus, we recently spotted this article on the Open Source Africa site.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa and Middle East. ## Europe and UK. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Africa and Middle East. Asia and Pacific Rim. Central and South America. Europe and UK.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I do a ton of technical writing, and I have become the “documentation facilitator&# of the OpenMRS project – it is an open source medical records system, designed to serve clinics in low-resource areas (such as sub-sarahan Africa) that treat patients with HIV/AIDS. I’d like to do more of all of it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

There is an interesting case study of the marketing of Tampax and Africa on the Cause Related Marketing Blog. It’s pretty interesting. Marketing and Fundraising Ideas tells us about how not to ask for a major gift. And lastly, since I’m hosting, I get to mention my recent post on Twitter and nonprofits. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Africa and Middle East. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. CTO, Greenpeace International.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

That’s why we invited NetSquared organizers and ambassadors to participate in the TechSoup Africa and TechSoup Europe Summits. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and the Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. I head out again soon to meet with potential Martus users in Southern Africa – in other words, I’m returning to focus on specific projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Addressing Africa???s Aspiration Social Source Commons [link]. Strengthening the Social Web in Africa [link]. Open Source, Open Standards Video [link]. 100 Innovators - the world's most important story has started to unfold [link]. A Global Neighbour Network: NABUUR.com [link]. Maps 2.0 ???

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Census Bureau and the Peace Corps.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Ken Banks, who is using mobile technology to foster positive social and environmental change in the developing world, particularly in Africa. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform. She is currently a Kiva fellow serving a three-month tour in a rural section of the Philippines. “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

One example to publish comes from Africa - here and here. The new textbook teaches the use of Khmer language Free and Open Source applications, such as OpenOffice, Mekhala (Firefox) and Moyura (Thunderbird), which have been fully translated to Khmer language (Cambodian).

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

developing economies in Asia and Africa. skip Africa because of costs. Though the list above includes mobile Internet-related services, some of the. mobiles being used in the developing world are the most basic, and may. not have some of these features. Average world penetration is 30% and the average for developing. countries is 21%.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services. education in Africa? , refugee resettlement in sub Saharan Africa?, In our view these ?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. First things first: we clean water for kids. We literally clean contaminated water to make it safe for drinking and hand washing. It isn’t perfect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Ken Banks, a Hewlett Foundation grant recipient who focuses on using mobile technology to foster positive social and environmental change in the developing world, particularly Africa. Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Her selection criteria. Here's here write up on word press. Meanwhile, across the pond, Susie muses about GIMP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The goal: a movement powerful enough to respond to any conservation emergency anywhere swiftly and efficiently, reverse the catastrophic loss of habitats and species and secure the future of wildlife in Africa, Asia and around the world. Social Media Strategy As Design Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Six Proposals That Impact Civil Society in Africa looked at the six Net2 attributes and africa location. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Facebook is the most popular site in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, also the Middle East, and North Africa. See the map here.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Third Place: $10,000. Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The advent of open source technology and years of use by corporations have both made these technologies inexpensive and proven they are more agile and reliable than the complex systems most vendors currently offer the nonprofit market. He is on the Board of Directors of Cambridge, Mass.-based

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Global NpTech Inveneo is a non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to get the tools of ICT to those in remote and rural communities in the developing world, mostly in Africa. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org. It’s very basic. You can nest menus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. " to pursue your grassroots agenda in Africa. If your organization is based in the UK, the ICT Hub Unmet Needs Fund is now open for applications. It's a list of Israeli Linux Clubs!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running! Allan Benamer responded this week with some suggested guidelines for nonprofits to use for disclosure of security breaches Check this out! I don't speak or read Japanese.

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