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Cryptocurrency in the nonprofit sector: What you need to know

ASU Lodestar Center

Cryptocurrency is created by code, not issued by a government like dollars or pesos. Looming government regulation could bring still more change. Some estimates put crypto's global carbon footprint at a level comparable to the entire country of Argentina. How should nonprofits accept cryptocurrency?

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

Over the hum of her café’s fuel-powered generator, Olutosin types, “Our center is the safest place for any woman to access the Internet in my community. We’re delivering these ideas to key forums, including the Silicon Valley Rights Conference and the Internet Governance Forum, to make sure they are heard loud and clear.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

It aims to share principles and resources for governments and societies on how to best maximize open government data opportunities. Through identifying successes, it will provide a roadmap of policies and institutions that governments can use to create meaningful new open data initiatives.