Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Visit the Center for Digital Philanthropy's Hurricane Sandy Relief page to learn about more efforts underway from organizations around the world. Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way. CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Net neutrality has been enshrined in law in the Netherlands and Chile. ” International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is inviting CSOs and corporations, entrepreneurs, and the general public to submit questions, ideas, and stories in the run up to ITU Telecom World 2011 in October. Not convinced yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. Microsoft has heavily invested in networks and there are probably a lot of wisdom about network effectiveness there.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Japan has a structured system based on their Law for the Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances and their Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources. region in southern China is the poster child of digital dumps and bad electronics recycling. Their system recovers around 75 percent of e-waste.

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