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Best Practices for Securing Data in Humanitarian Crisis Situations

Saleforce Nonprofit

Whether involved in humanitarian response in conflict or disaster situations, development work, human rights, or peace-building, our international nonprofit customers have some of the most complex nonprofit missions on earth. Step One: Understanding Your Use Case’s Purpose and Threat Model. Learn more. Note: This uses “Event Monitoring”.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available ? Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. And they're doing it in ways that allow people to build web applications on top of the data. By now, most folks in the web development and Gov 2.0

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One Laptop per Child meets the Competition

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

A lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal highlights the effect that the One Laptop per Child Initiative has had on the pc industry. The result is that low-cost laptops are being sold to schools in many developing countries today, but surprisingly few are OLPC units.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

Qgiv

I have noticed in the many grant applications I have prepared and submitted that budgets play a more important role than ever. Prospective donors including grant making agencies are overwhelmed with grant applications. Each funder–individual, foundation, corporation, or government agency–has unique needs and interests.

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Opening Session at NASSCOM and Social Innovation Winners

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. . You could feel the energy in the room - a convergence of IT leadership from business, government, social innovation, and nonprofit sectors.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

He is also currently the country manager for the One Laptop per Child Project. Because telecenters are one of the primary ways that many people in developing countries access the Internet, Valter has a unique vantage point to see how cloud computing is rolling out in Brazil. Brazil is the eighth largest economy in the world.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

To attract good applicants, nonprofits may well need to go mobile with their job application process. Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. have all developed solutions for nonprofits, then there is clearly a shift taking place. One is hiring.

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