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Americans' Urge to Help Overcomes Lock Down Limitations

VisionLink

Thousands of COVID-19 volunteers and donated essential supplies are matched with states’ needs through an innovative pro bono tech and volunteer partnership BOULDER, CO, April 9, 2020 – Americans are no strangers to disasters. A hallmark of U.S. Our technology suite is in use in dozens of states around the country and more are joining.

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Lame spam of the day: U.N. natural disaster victim payment

Robert Weiner

This spam is both lame (no graphic, no attempt to make the senders address look legit, mangled English) and odious -- preying on disaster victims (one can hope they're just preying on greedy idiots who will pretend to be disaster victims). 6) Identification either, Passport photo page, Driver License or National ID. (IF

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How Emerging Tech Is Changing Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

The Rock isn't going to save San Francisco after a cargo ship-moving, bridge-splitting, tsunami-causing earthquake … but cutting-edge technology might. I thought it would be interesting to look at some recent examples of emerging technology for disaster relief in action. TechSoup Resources for Disaster Planning and Recovery.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi (Children without Borders) in Japan is a humanitarian educational association NGO that supports disadvantaged children and youth in Asia who are on the street, are victims of trafficking, forced labor, and natural disasters, or in conflict with the law. Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine.

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How Can a Museum Best Protect Its Assets?

Tech Soup

Frank says, "Most of our enterprise software is procured via TechSoup, which makes it affordable to license so many servers! Frank reports that his backups were failing constantly and causing him stress in his careful, risk-based management approach. Simplified disaster recovery. These options and features include.

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