Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. There I was, being virtually groped in a snowy fortress with my brother-in-law and husband watching. Get the idea?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. We will start to train someone in Mensajeros de la Paz who's gonna be responsible for the avatar if the action works.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

I still hadn’t been able to talk to my husband, but my mother-in-law had gotten word to him that we were headed East on I-10, and he was able to track my progress via our online, real-time credit card statement. Now we are friends on Google Maps, and I can see his dot throughout his evening commute. No satellite radio yet.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations. The technology itself is not intrinsically good -at Google we are advocates for free expression on the internet and free access for all; the technology istelf is and should be a neutral platform for this.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Google’s use of microwork for a US Department of Defense initiative, Project Maven, is a case in point. Partly to keep costs low, but also to keep the project private, Google contracted the services of Figure Eight (now Appen), a microwork site that specialises in data annotation.

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