Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The DOJ and Byte Technology recommend WCAG 2.1 Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act covers federal programs or agencies and their use of electronic and information technology. AA standards, which includes captioning and audio description requirements. Your site is in the government, education, medical, banking, ?restaurant,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? Good or bad thing? No one clicks on the button.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. Consider how the accessible online library Bookshare – an initiative of Benetech , a Silicon Valley non-profit that builds technology solutions addressing social problems – is transforming the lives of American students with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector. Yet, nonprofits frequently lag behind the for-profit world in applying technology to their work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. New technology called “voicemail drop” allows an organization to place a voicemail in your voicemail box without ringing their phone. This can include a building, or access to experts or cool technology or data, or historical archives. Access to Assets.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. military policies globally, not just what's happening with women domestically. There is a lot of discrepancy about who is being included, and who is not. Land is an asset.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

There’s a group that I worked with that are all different types of government and higher education stakeholders and they have very different big, bold agendas that they’d had worked hard on. Or maybe you’re really looking for larger scale, a change, right, systems-level policy advocacy change. Who are the players?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

You can view (and download ) the slides and audio here, which feature our provocations and the discussion that followed. The audio starts noisy. In science and technology centers, there are some “can’t”s that are alive and well in other museums. but it gets better. If you do offend, ask yourself—who do you offend and why?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Tonight, I attended a live panel discussion on the question of whether Technology is Really Good for Human Rights, or not. We’ve seen potential for those unsympathetic to the cause to use the technology too – a bit of an arms race created. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Iran Technology China Government 152

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. What’s not to like? Not So Rosy After All.

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Platform Technology United States New York 140

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. This is a particular problem when – as with Project Maven – the technologies supported by microwork are built for explicitly oppressive ends. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy. My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work. We are a 3.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

A post-carbon, clean energy, renewable economy will be an economy that has more jobs, because renewable technologies and sustainable ways of doing things are simply more labor-intensive. The government needs to get involved. The government doesn't need to put everybody to work necessarily, though it may get to that point.

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