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Nonprofits Win Webby Awards

Care2

The Webby Awards, one of the most prestigious internet awards for outstanding websites, honored several nonprofits this year. Webby Award Winner). Avaaz , a global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere. Webby Award Winner). Check out the winners. People's Voice Winner).

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Announcing the Launch of Our Philantech® Cloud

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million global charities, automate tax incentives and rewards of charitable giving, and deliver donations fast and transparently. Givinga brings a more modern, proactive approach to global charity vetting and faster payment processing. Our Philantech cloud is available to partners through a SaaS licensing structure.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

If the question at hand was a global treaty setting “fair use” as a global norm, I would expect the same objections. Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily. Everything is negotiable under license, except in practice, they don’t want to negotiate about access -- because there’s not enough money involved.

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

The winner will receive a cash award of $1,000, plus $1,000 to donate to their favorite charity. The prize will be awarded on Thursday, April 5th at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, during the awards luncheon. The deadline to vote is noon (Pacific Time) on Monday, April 2nd.

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Tech Awards: An Annual Showcase of Challenges and Hope

Tech Soup

This blog post originally appeared on the TechSoup Global Blog. The Tech Awards , an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions," just unveiled their laureates for this year. Have you participated in The Tech Awards?

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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

Tech Soup

Each year the International Computer Refurbisher Summit awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Sean Nicholson. This was mainly because refurbishers couldn't afford to put legal Windows licenses on used equipment. Image: Sean Nicholson.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My latest post on HuffPo is now up: Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet , about my proposal to the WEF's Global Redesign Initiative. What would you propose to global leaders to make humanity better off? Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology.

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