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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

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A recent study finds that 73 percent of Internet users in Europe use social networks. In the United States, 66 percent of Internet users are on social networks. The Restart Romania challenge resulted in citizens proposing technological solutions to a range of real world problems such as corruption in the medical system.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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It doesn’t rely solely on the relatively few big data centers out there, but rather on the emerging Internet of Things in which processors are embedded into appliances, thermostats, cars, street lights, buildings, etc. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet. The case went through the European court system and he won the case.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Speaking of maps, the Oxford Internet Institute has used Internet traffic data from Alexa to figure each country’s most popular websites.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

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They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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