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

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The relationship starts online, but the “ask” happens offline, perhaps on the phone, but most likely face-to-face. An organization dedicated to “never again” a genocide — such as those in Europe, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur — must raise awareness and advocate with as much energy as it raises money. No problem.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

Tech Soup

, which means "enough," began online and moved offline to solidify a movement to create a better Bosnia and Herzegovina. 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 November 2013

Tech Soup

We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. It covers 10 topics including humanitarian uses of drones: • Mobile and cell phones • New uses for TV and radio. mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. There’s a lot in there.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The case went through the European court system and he won the case. It hooks up to a phone, tablet or computer so the information can be messaged to a hospital. The case originated in Spain where a man there filed a complaint arguing that Google's search results infringed on his privacy. Find more on this project here.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone. Of course mobile phone payments are not new. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested. CNET Coverage on Digital Wallets.

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